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|| To Gov. tel. Pers. & Conf. Ans.
Notes
19.7.
on interview with sir W. Peet.
13 O.A.G.
O.A.G. tel. Pero. +
conf.
20/7.
Proposes that further action on the report should be suspended pending the arrival of the new Vice-Chancellor.
Mr. Cowell.
With your concurrence Mr. Mayhew discussed
this telegram this afternoon, and we have agreed on
the attached draft reply to be submitted for conson.
It is clear enough from passage flagged A
in No. 2 that the .A.G's. interpretation of Sir A.
Caldecott's announcement is more than questionable.
Mr. N.. Smith himself seems slow to accept
the opportunity offered to him by our suggestion of
extricating himself from a personally embarrassing
position as Chairman of the local Committee which
produced the Recort.
A new Vice Chancellor will not want to be
immediately involved in the thick of this affair
which has so disturbed certain members of the
University Staff and it is undesirable (and really
rather impossible) that he could be regarded as an
unprejudiced outside expert.
(Sd.) G.E.J.Gent.
21.7.
(Sa.) H. R. Cowell.
21.7.