Other formats

    Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)   TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 5. April 2 1968

New Vice-chancellor

New Vice-chancellor

• Mr. Clark Titman, who supports the government's policy in Vietnam, is attending the Peace, Power and Politics Conference.

• Mr. Clark Titman, who supports the government's policy in Vietnam, is attending the Peace, Power and Politics Conference.

During the Christmas vacation he walked from Auckland to Wellington with his wife and two children to demonstrate his point of view.

He said on Sunday: "I am really here to make an 'honest woman' out of the conference.

"My presence will make it less unrepresentative."

The organisers were most sincere in their views he said. "But they don't realise that we did not start the war and that we would stop it tomorrow if we could.

"I don't believe in the domino theory, or anything as simple as that.

"I don't believe in the Chinese plot theory.

"I don't think that if we fail in Vietnam we will fight in the Waikato."

But China would become much too powerful if it was allowed to gain the whole of South-East Asia's sympathy.

New Zealand would become dependent on it economically and in every other way.

• The new Vice-Chancellor, Dr. D. B. C. Taylor, arrived early last week.

Till recently, Dr. Taylor was senior tutor at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

His academic work has been on brittle fracture failures of metal.

Dr. Taylor, an Irishman, was educated at Queen's University, Dublin.

He is married to a New Zealander.

Photo: M. Vickers.

Dr. Taylor.