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...bachelor, Conway found London club life very pleasant, and almost indispensible. He enjoyed the warm atmosphere at meals, and made regular use of the club libraries. "England is a world of institution," he says, "and a bachelor always has his clubs...
...Conway is a serious student of British and Canadian history, and has a well-conceived vision of the Common-wealth. He is often commended for his "understanding of the transition from Empire to Commonwealth." His Ph.D. thesis was a study of "The Round Table," an important group of publicists and politicians which emerged from Oxford in the late 1890's and joined in an association in London. They were influential in settling the Boer War and in writing the new South African constitution...
...Conway, who still thinks of himself as a Canadian, is now writing a book on the Commonwealth theory of sovereignty, which will be largely based on Canada's "constitution," the British North America Act. He has worked for the Progressive-Conservative Party, and his good friend and former canoeing partner, Davie Fulton, is Canadian Minister of Finance in the present Tory Cabinet...
Much of John Conway's personality can be understood in terms of his great love for the "emptiness" of the great Canadian Northwest. This area, where he has lived--canoeing, camping, and working at logging camps during the summer--is famed for its natural grandeur. But its quiet, vast peacefulness is nonetheless instinct with a sometimes awesome vitality...
Thus a feeling of isolated, individual dignity has been superimposed upon Conway's highly developed intellect. Many of the students who have come in contact with him comment upon his "genuine concern and wonderful humanity." Master Finley commends him for having achieved "a wonderful balance between the moral and intellectual aspects of University life." He has also balanced his acceptance of Francois Mauriac's skepticism with his own devout Catholicism...