Word: tweedsmuir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canadian's first loyalty," said Canada's Governor General, Lord Tweedsmuir, before George VI toured that nation in 1939, "is not to the British Commonwealth of Nations but to Canada and Canada's King." It was a startling declaration to tradition-minded Canadians; the empire-shouting Montreal Gazette indignantly rejected it as "disloyal." But last week, when Prime Minister John Diefenbaker welcomed Elizabeth II for the first visit by a reigning British monarch since 1939, he said: "The Queen of Canada is a term which we like to use because it utterly represents her role on this...
With this novel of romance and intrigue, the second son of the late Lord Tweedsmuir, more widely known as John (The 39 Steps') Buchan, takes his own first fictional step. Buchan fils proves that like Buchan pere he can turn a marsh-mallow-weight tale until it is neatly toasted. The setting is India; the set is buna sahib; the time is mainly the '30s; the season is boredom. But at least two men and one woman think there is more to India than what can be seen through the bottom of a gin-sling glass...