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...citizens as sovereign representative of the Crown; since confederation in 1867, the post of Governor General has been held by 17 successive British peers. Many older Canadians felt that this was as it should be, that the exercise of the King's constitutional functions by a distinguished Briton was a strong link in the Empire...
...remark, did the rough & ready young Belloc, "fully armed and uttering war cries like Athena" (in the words of the London Times) invade "the startled, insular world of late Victorian Oxford." While he laid about him, buffeting the dons, intoning ballads and drinking songs, dominating political and religious debate, Britons soothed themselves by reflecting that he was, after all, a bit of a foreigner. For every true Briton believes at heart that whenever his peace is disturbed by uncompromising passion and brilliance, foreign blood is bound to be at the bottom of it. In Belloc's case...
...lots of dinnertime get-togethers. The Americans were back-slappingly friendly, but they wanted to see a little zip. "Cut out the banquets," said Connecticut's well-fed Senator Bill Benton. "We've come here to ask some important questions, and we want the whole story." A Briton remarked unhappily on the second day, "This isn't a conference, it's a court of inquiry...
...Tories are appealing not to the Briton's traditional ability to tighten his belt, but-and profoundly-to his sense of human and national greatness...
Greatness is a subject upon which the Englishman is usually inarticulate. But the Tories like Selwyn Lloyd and David Eccles are deeply conscious of it. They know that this is a country which must live on its wits, not on its resources. They know that the Briton is born with, or has acquired through the centuries, a gift for leadership which the world can ill afford to spare. They know Britons are tired, but they don't think Britons are ready to abdicate...