“Obstinate, tiresome and stupid.”

— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Curzon's opinion of Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, quoted in Nicholas Mansergh, The Commonwealth Experience (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), p. 224.

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