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[image: embossed seal 'Office of the Prime Minister, Canada']

Ottawa, July 18, 1936

The Right Honourable
The Lord Tweedsmuir, G.C.M.G., C.H.,
Governor General of Canada,
The Citadel,
Quebec, P. Q.

My dear J.B.

I return herewith the rough draft which was enclosed
with your letter of the 15th instant.

I would suggest, for lines six to twelve inclusive,
something like the following:

"She welcomes you not less as the head of a country
to whose people she is bound by ties of kinship and
tradition; a country whose problems she shares, and
whose future deeply concerns her own. As a North
American nation, we have much in common with you.
Yet our countries have their distinctive characteristics.
Our differences understood and respected are,
however, not less than our similarities, a firm
foundation for friendship and co-operation."

You will see what I have in mind:

Re: substitution of the word "head" for "ruler". I question if
the American people would like the word "ruler" to be used.

Re: substitution of "kinship " for "blood". I imagine that the
latter term would be preferable in a speech to be delivered in
Quebec.

Re: substitution ot "deeply concerns" for "closely linked to"
in reference to the future. I tear the possibility of ''closely
linked to" being deliberately misinterpreted by those who might
wish to make trouble . They would seek to have the phrase construed
as meaning ultimate annexation.