“The obstacle has been Mackenzie King, the Canadian, who is both obstinate, tiresome and stupid.”

—  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Source: Letter to his wife during the 1923 Imperial Conference (8 November 1923), quoted in Terry Reardon, Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King: So Similar, So Different (2012), pp. 52-53

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