MR. DICKINSON'S SPEECHES
Sir, —The publicity given to adverse criticism of the public utterances of Mr. H. D. Dickinson prompts me to think that the critics are anything but dispassionate. The University College Council is "making a mountain out of a molehill": the cablegram from Sir James "Baillie is merely an expression of hi:* personal views on the subject. Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie has rightly expressed concern about the prestige of the college, hut does he really think that in condemning Mr. Dickinson for having the courage of his convictions he is promoting public respect for the college or the college council? Fortunately the views expressed bv the president are not those maintained by the majority of clear-minded citizens. It may interest Mr. Mackenzie to know that the only good that has come out of the "personalities" indulged in by his council is that the citizens realise that*we have some live men on the college staff. Hundreds of young men and women in this province are indebted to_ Mr. Dickinson for his perfect exposition of the true attitude to war, and contrast it with the shameful milk-and-water attitude of our own and other branches of the Christian Church. Richard Armstrong.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21934, 18 October 1934, Page 15
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199MR. DICKINSON'S SPEECHES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21934, 18 October 1934, Page 15
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