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IN, his capacity of Chancellor of the University of Bristol, Mr. Winston Churchill attended a Congregation on April 12 for the conferment of the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Mr. John G. Winant, the American Ambassador, Mr. Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, and (in absence) on Dr. J. B. Conant, president of Harvard University. Referring to the honorary graduates, Mr. Churchill said: “Through him [Mr. Winant] and other distinguished representatives who are with us to-day … we make another tie with the illustrious President of the United States, and with the representatives of that vast community at a time when great matters of consequence to all the world are being resolved. … In Dr. Conant we have a figure, widely and deeply respected throughout the United States, and particularly among the youth who attend Harvard University, holding up a clear beacon light for young men of honour and courage.” Mr. Menzies, he said, has brought with him the strong assurance of the democracy of the Commonwealth that they with us will go through this long, fierce, dire struggle to the bitter end.
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Honorary Degrees at Bristol. Nature 147, 475 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147475b0
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