CANADA’S GOVERNOR TALKS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 December 1937, Page 12

CANADA’S GOVERNOR TALKS

GREAT MEN HE HAS KNOWN. Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan), Governor-General of Canada, talked informally to the Canadian Club of the town of Morrisburg recently on great men he had met in his long and var- ’ ied career as writer, soldier and poli’tician. Among statesmen classed as build-. ,’ers he put Cecil Rhodes first. Theodore Roosevelt and Gladstone were ranked first among party leaders, and 'Lord Balfour and Sir Wilfrid Laurier were named as perfect examples of the philosopher in politics. Lawrence of Arabia he classed as a man of genius. Lord Tweedsmuir, declaring the art of oratory had declined in recent year and holding the radio re-

sponsible, said Lord Rosebery was the finest orator he had known. Rudyard Kipling held the top of the list of meh of letters whom Lord Tweedsmuir had known. His Excellency chose three men whose merits were shown in their ordinary run of life,, namely Lord Milner, of whom the speaker said he had never known anyone so wholly “selfless” and to whom he had been private secretary; secondly he chose General Botha and thirdly, Lord Grey. His Excellency paid Lord Grey the finest compliment he believed anyone could receive. He said “Lord Grey was the kind of man whom one longs to have one’s sons resemble.”