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DAVID MURPHY Halifax, Nova Scotia...
Young President. Educated at Halifax's Dalhousie University and the Harvard Law School, Smith taught law at Dalhousie, at 37 became Canada's youngest university president (University of Manitoba), has headed the University of Toronto since 1945. There he got a reputation for phrasemaking and outspoken intolerance of parents who send their children to college "just to prove there's nothing wrong with them." He told incoming students: "If you have come here to be a personality kid and win friends and influence people, you might get what you are after, but it would have been quicker...
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...Late to Cry. The next attack came from a surprising source, from a man almost as respected by the Tory gentry as Salisbury himself-lantern-jawed Earl of Halifax, a staunch Conservative who very nearly became Prime Minister in 1940 instead of Winston Churchill.* Halifax thought that if the government had handled itself better before the Suez invasion, "we might have avoided the discredit of a course of action which we could not in fact carry through." Lord Salisbury, said Halifax, was a member of the government which launched the Suez invasion, "and if he was-as no doubt...
...autobiography published in England last week, Lord Halifax recalls a grim May afternoon when he met with Churchill and Neville Chamberlain to decide who should replace the discredited Chamberlain as Prime Minister. Halifax, Chamberlain's choice, opened the discussion by declaring that as a peer, forbidden to enter the House of Commons, he could not hope to run the government effectively. Dryly he records that Chamberlain "reluctantly and Churchill, with evidently much less reluctance, finished by accepting my view...