Abstract
AT the annual degree congregation of the University of Birmingham, the Chancellor (Viscount Cecil) conferred the honorary degree of doctor of laws on Dr. Benes, President of the Czechoslovak Republic, Mr. J. G. Winant, American Ambassador to Great Britain, Mr. R. G. Casey, Minister of State in the Middle East, Sir Edward Appleton, secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and Dr. H. R. Ricardo, a pioneer in the development of the high-speed internal combustion engine. In introducing Mr. Winant the Public Orator said: “What is clearest in these dubious times is that in international conflict his country and ours stand for the same things and stand or fall together. We shall not fall. This University has not fallen but is still working on, diminished but not brought low, making light of scars upon her buildings. Her desire is to see Americans and British continuing to work together, mix together, in time of peace as they are so freely doing in time of war, and from this hour to be mixed up herself, as inextricably as possible, with Mr. Winant, with the American universities and with the entire people of the United States”.
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