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When Harold Nicolson (Paul Verlaine, Portrait of a Diplomatist) was a small boy, he believed that the greatest man in the world was his uncle. Lord Dufferin, Queen Victoria's slight, swarthy, long-haired, dreamy-eyed Governor-General of Canada, Ambassador to Russia, Turkey, Italy and France, Viceroy of India, amateur painter, architect, Greek and Persian scholar, author. Lord Dufferin died in 1902, when Harold Nicolson...
...opposition to Home Rule, his artistic bent and his fantastic taste in furnishing his country house, Clandeboye, which included everything from cannons to totem poles. These contradictions he treats with disarming irony, wit, charm of style. In his typically English dialect of delicate understatement Nephew Nicolson limns Lord Dufferin's "generosity of soul," his touching love for his mother (for whom he built an elaborate shrine which he called Helen's Tower), his extraordinary charm, his genius for winning colonies without battles. He gives, in short, a strong suggestion that his childhood opinion of his uncle...
...That is true," admitted Lord Dufferin & Ava, then continued his ringing address as a budding statesman by keynoting: "His Majesty's Government are determined not to allow calm proposals to be blocked by threats!" Without a vote in the Lords the bill then went to the Commons...
...Irishman aged only 28, the 4th Marquess of Dufferin & Ava, had charge of His Majesty's Government's bill in the House of Lords as Undersecretary for Colonies, was on trial last week as a coming Conservative statesman of possibly bright future...
...accompanied by Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lieut. Governor Esioff Léon Patenaude of Quebec and U. S. Minister Norman Armour. With an escort of Royal Canadian Dragoons trotting beside him, President Roosevelt was driven up through the narrow streets of French Quebec to the heights of Dufferin Terrace...