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[Lord Cecil - GG's job]

Chelwood Gate, Haywards Heath. Telephone. Chelwoodgate 8. Station Forest Row.

6 April 1935

My dear John

Please remember my family motto - sero sed serio - & accept these late but very earnest congratulations. Your appointment will I have no doubt be very good for Canada - It has already been a very great pleasure to all your friends including Nelly & me. I remember you always had a hankering after Transatlantic work & this is a much more inter-

[inter]esting & important job than Washington. We have been now for many years engaged in destroying - inevitably - the old conception of an Empire more or less dependent on the mother country. The problem is what if anything durable can be put in its place - Federation evidently won't do. Blank unredeemed separation would mean a great loss - to us & to the world. Joint action by the Empire in Foreign Affairs at least is very important. Perhaps something like the Little Entente within the League might work. Anyhow you are just the man to study

CHELWOOD CATE, HAYWARDS HEATH. TELEPHONE. CHELWOOD GATE 8. STATION FOREST ROW.

the question & suggest the next step -

Best of good wishes

Yours ever

R.C.

[Lord Cecil]