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When King George V named little John Buchan to be his Governor General of Canada in 1935, Canadians knew him only as the prolific author of nearly 50 books. In England his fame rested chiefly on his immensely popular adventure fiction. "Mr. Buchan," a London newspaperman asked him, "how would you describe yourself?" "I am a typical Scot of the border breed," wryly replied John Buchan...
...John Buchan's adventure stories, the brave and resourceful young Englishman so regularly and so thrillingly came through in the face of the direst subversive influences-and Author Buchan so obviously believed that he could and should-that to his Empire audience he and his heroes came to have a sort of Empire symbolism all their own. Coupled with his yeoman political and patriotic services, this gave Buchan a place on the list of Britain's public patriots not far down the line from Winston Churchill. As well indicated by their hearty welcome to George VI last summer...
Alastair Francis Buchan, 21, and John Buchcm, 27, Oxford-bred sons of Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan); respectively as a Princess Louise's Dragoon Guard, a Governor-General's Footguard...
...along the St. Lawrence heaped bonfires, decked railway stations. At Callander, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe got his morning coat out of mothballs and the Dionne quintuplets practiced pretty curtsies in preparation for their trip to Toronto to meet King George and Queen Elizabeth. Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir (Author John Buchan) collected a library for Their Majesties, books on Canadian life, political works and novels, including a mystery called Blood Royal...
...Because both papers on which he worked have been long defunct, he had to do it on their rival sheet, the daily Local News, under Editor Edwin L. McKinstry. Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir, who has written 51 books under his commoner's name of John Buchan, called them "a terrible weight on my conscience," confessed with a simper that he has written "far, far too many...