ABSTRACT
On the outbreak of the Second World War, the governor-general of Canada, Lord Tweedsmuir, wrote to the newly appointed minister of information, Lord Macmillan, to discuss British propaganda in the United States. The prime minister wrote to Tweedsmuir on the latter's appointment to congratulate him and noted how much he was looking forward to working together: 'I shall have you at my side as a counselor and friend and shall be holding toward yourself a similar position'. Tweedsmuir was scarcely less warm, if somewhat less biblical, in his appreciation of Mackenzie King. In fact, Tweedsmuir attempted to drive home his views to Mackenzie King early in the autumn of 1936 as the prime minister embarked on a trip to London and to Geneva and the League of Nations. The prime minister, Tweedsmuir concluded, needs to hammer into the British Cabinet's head that the most loyal people of Canada will refuse to return to the old eighteenth century game in Europe.
