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Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps

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by Ursula Buchan


  Hutchings, Professor

  on Canada’s ‘First People’, here

  Hutchison, Robert Key, here

  Huxley, Thomas Henry, here

  Hyde Park on Hudson (film), here

  Hyde Park Square, London, JB and Susie’s first home, here

  Ibsen Society (Brasenose College), here

  Imperial War Museum, here

  India

  Willie Buchan in, here, here, here, here

  and self-government, here

  plan to separate Burma from, here

  Information, Department (later Ministry) of (Great War)

  JB works in, here, here, here

  dissolved at war’s end, here

  Ironside, General Sir Edmund

  JB meets, here, here

  as model for Richard Hannay character, here

  at Vimy Ridge, here

  Isbister (publisher), here

  Isis (magazine), here, here

  Island Called Lone, The (JB; projected), here

  Island of Sheep, The (JB; novel), here, here, here

  Island of Sheep, The (JB with Susie; political symposium), here

  Italy

  in Great War, here

  Jack, T.C. and E.C. (publishers), here

  Jacob, Violet, here

  James, Henry, here, here, here, here

  James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The, here

  James, William, here

  Jameson, Johnnie, here, here, here, here, here

  Japan

  invades China (1937), here

  Jepson, Edgar

  The Passion for Romance, here

  Jews

  plight in Europe, here

  JB’s attitude to, here

  in JB’s fiction, here

  persecuted in Germany, here

  Johannesburg, here

  ‘John Buchan’ (racehorse), here

  John Burnet of Barns (JB), here, here, here, here, here

  John Macnab (JB), here, here, here

  Johnson, Dr Samuel, here, here, here, here

  Johnston, James, here

  Johnston, Tom, here

  Johnston-Douglas, Caroline (later Lady Kinross), here

  Johnston-Douglas, Olive, here

  Jones, Professor Henry, here, here

  Jones, Sir Roderick, here, here, here, here

  Jones, Thomas, here

  ‘Journey of Little Profit, A’ (JB; story), here

  Jowett, Benjamin, here, here

  Julius Caesar (JB), here

  Jury, Sir William, here

  Kailyard School (of writing)

  JB disparages, here, here

  Karsh, Yousuf, here, here, here, here

  Katz, Professor David S., here

  Kelvin, William Thomson, 1st Baron, here

  Kemp, John, here

  Kennedy, Jacqueline (later Onassis), here

  Kennedy, John F., here

  Kenworthy, Lieut.-Commander Joseph Montague, here

  Ker, Professor W.P., here

  Killick, Lilian (née Alcock)

  as JB’s secretary, here, here, here

  works in JB’s Department of Information office, here

  husband unemployed, here

  on JB as businessman, here

  types JB’s letters to Susie, here

  accompanies JB to Canada, here, here, here, here

  on JB’s kindness in later years, here

  types Sick Heart River, here

  settles in Elsfield, here

  King, William Mackenzie see Mackenzie King

  ‘King of Ypres, The’ (JB; story), here

  King’s Grace 1910–1935, The (JB), here, here, here

  Kipling, Rudyard

  influence on JB, here

  JB meets, here

  ‘The House of Suddhoo’, here

  Kirk in Scotland: 1560–1929, The (JB and George Adam Smith), here, here

  Kirkcaldy, Fife, here

  Kirkwood, David, here

  Kitchener, General Horatio Herbert, Viscount (later Earl), here

  Knox, Father Ronald, here

  Korda, Alexander, here, here

  Kruger, Paul, here

  Lady Tweedsmuir Prairie Library Scheme, here, here

  ‘Lallans’ (Border dialect), here

  Lamb, Henry, here

  Lamont, Tom, here

  Land and Water (magazine), here

  Landon, Alfred, here

  Lane, John (publisher), here, here, here, here, here

  Lang, Andrew, here, here

  Lang, Cosmo, Archbishop of Canterbury (earlier Bishop of Stepney), here, here

  Larocque-Poirier, Joanne, here

  Lascelles, Sir Alan (Tommy), here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  ‘Last Crusade, The’ (JB; story), here

  Last, Professor Hugh, here

  Last Secrets, The (JB), here, here

  Lauder, Sir Harry, here

  Laughton, Charles, here

  Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, here, here

  Law, Andrew Bonar, here, here

  Law Relating to the Taxation of Foreign Income, The (JB), here

  Lawrence, T.E. (‘Lawrence of Arabia’)

  knowledge of Middle East affairs, here

  Lowell Thomas meets, here

  praises JB’s Montrose, here

  likeness to Sandy Arbuthnot, here

  friendship with JB, here

  rejoins RAF, here

  on JB’s appointment as Governor-General of Canada, here

  killed in motor-cycle accident, here

  and JB as ‘figure’, here

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, here

  League of Nations, here, here, here

  le Carré, John

  The Honourable Schoolboy, here

  Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, here

  Lee, General Robert E., here

  Leigh, Augusta, here

  Leithen, Sir Edward (fictional character), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  ‘Lemnian, The’ (JB; story), here, here

  le Queux, William, here

  Letchworth Garden City, here

  Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount, here

  Lewis, Wyndham, here

  Liddell Hart, Captain Basil, here

  The Future of Infantry, here

  Lincoln, Abraham, here, here

  Lindbergh, Charles, here

  Lindsay, Sir Robert, here, here, here, here

  Listener, The (magazine), here

  Littlehampton, Sussex, here

  Living Age (US magazine), here

  Lloyd George, David

  criticises JB’s war history, here, here

  advocates propaganda in war, here, here

  succeeds Asquith as Prime Minister, here

  and JB’s appointment and administration as Director of Information, here, here, here

  and war aims, here

  ennobles Beaverbrook, here

  JB petitions for honour, here

  praises JB’s maiden speech in Commons, here

  JB writes on, here

  Lockhart-Mummery, Dr John, here

  Lodge in the Wilderness, A (JB), here, here, here, here, here, here

  London

  JB on, here, here

  bombed in daylight in Great War, here

  Londonderry, Edith, Marchioness of (‘Circe’), here

  Long Road to Victory, The (JB), here

  Long Traverse, The (JB), here

  Loos, Battle of (1915), here

  Lost Lady of Old Years, A (JB), here, here, here, here

  Lothian, Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of, here, here, here, here, here

  Lovelace, ‘Mamie’, Countess of, here, here

  Lovelace, Ralph, 2nd Earl of, here

  Lucas, Auberon Herbert, 9th Baron (‘Bron’), here, here, here

  ‘Lucid Interval, A’ (JB; story), here

  Ludendorff, General Erich von, here

  Lyttelton, Lady, Katharine, here, here

  Lyt
telton, Lucy, here, here

  engagement to Charles Masterman, here

  Lyttelton, General Sir Neville and Lady, here

  MacDiarmid, Hugh (i.e. Christopher M. Grieve), here

  Annals of the Five Senses, here

  Contemporary Scottish Studies, here

  Sangschaw, here

  MacDonald, Malcolm, here

  MacDonald, Ramsay

  and founding of Scottish national library, here

  as Prime Minister, here, here

  moves censure motion on reform of Parliament Act, here

  success in 1929 election, here

  friendship with JB, here, here

  unpopularity, here

  JB writes on, here

  and JB’s appointment as Lord High Commissioner to General Assembly, here

  and JB’s meeting with Roosevelt, here

  and JB’s acceptance of Governor-Generalship of Canada, here

  mistrust of Roosevelt, here

  in Abdication Crisis, here

  Mackay, Thomas, here

  Mackenzie, Colonel Eric, here, here

  Mackenzie, Ian, here

  Mackenzie King, William Lyon

  JB and Susie stay with, here

  praises JB in diary, here

  on role of Governor-General, here

  wishes JB to be Governor-General, here

  and JB’s appointment as Governor-General, here

  JB’s opinion of, here

  poor public speaking, here, here

  meets Roosevelt, here

  and Canada’s defence weakness, here

  background and career, here

  relations with JB, here

  character and qualities, here

  letter from JB on danger of war in Europe, here

  and Abdication Crisis, here, here

  and Canadian constitutional reform, here

  praises JB’s speech to Canadian Institute of International Affairs, here

  Cordell Hull speaks to on Nine Power Treaty Conference on Japan, here

  and JB’s intrusions into politics, here

  JB dedicates Augustus to, here

  and royal visit to Canada, here, here, here, here

  Diaries, here

  expresses grievances to JB, here

  and outbreak of Second World War, here

  and wartime air training in Canada, here

  and dissolution of Parliament (January 1940), here

  broadcast on JB’s death, here

  Maclaren, Ian, here

  McLaughlin, Colonel Sam, here

  Maclean, Sir Donald, here, here, here

  Macmillan, Harold, here, here

  Macmillan, Hugh (later Baron), here, here, here

  MacMillan, Margaret

  History’s People, here

  Macmillan (publishers), here

  Macmillan’s Magazine, here

  Macpherson, Isla, here

  Magersfontein, Battle of (1899), here

  Magic Walking Stick, The (JB; children’s book), here, here

  Maitland, Alec, here, here, here

  Maitland, Rosalind, here, here

  Malcolm, Angela, here

  Malcolm, Dougal, here, here, here

  Mansfield, William Murray, 1st Earl of, here

  March, Vernon, here

  Margaret Rose, Princess, here

  Markham, Violet (Mrs James Carruthers)

  friendship with JB, here

  qualities and character, here

  JB’s respect for, here

  on depiction of Susie in JB’s fiction, here

  introduces JB to Mackenzie King, here

  and JB’s appointment as Governor-General of Canada, here

  at Elsfield, here

  proposes JB for government post, here

  and JB as Lord High Commissioner to General Assembly, here

  dislikes Laurier House, Ottawa, here

  at installation of JB as Chancellor of Edinburgh University, here

  and JB’s weight gain, here

  and JB’s tour of west of Canada, here

  on royal tour of Canada, here

  visits JB at Rideau Hall, here

  and Johnnie Buchan’s arrival in Canada, here

  Marquis of Montrose, The (JB), here

  Martin, Mr (gardener), here

  Mary, Queen of George V, here, here, here, here

  Masefield, John, here, here, here

  Masquerade (magazine), here

  Massey, Vincent, here, here

  Massie, Allan, here

  Masterman, Charles, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Masterton family, here, here

  Masterton, James (JB’s uncle), here

  Masterton, John (JB’s grandfather), here

  Masterton, John (JB’s uncle), here

  Maxton, James, here, here, here

  Meakins, Dr Jonathan, here, here, here, here, here

  Medd, Cuthbert (‘Cubby’)

  friendship with JB, here, here, here, here, here, here

  death, here

  Melba, Dame Nellie, here

  Memory Hold-the-Door (JB; Pilgrim’s Way in USA)

  on Calvinistic discipline, here

  contains chapter on fishing, here

  on influence of Kipling, here

  on tour in South Africa, here

  on engagement and marriage, here

  on First World War, here

  on JB’s ill-health, here

  little mention of war work, here

  on Lloyd George, here

  qualities and contents, here, here

  writing, here, here

  publication, here

  serialised, here

  John F. Kennedy favours, here

  Menzies, Joe, here

  Meredith, George, here, here

  Evan Harrington, here

  Merriman, Professor Roger, here

  Middle Temple

  JB becomes member of, here, here, here

  Midwinter (JB), here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Milburne, Vernon (fictional character), here

  Miller, Dr (of Rockefeller Medical Center), here

  Milner, Alfred, Viscount

  recruits JB for South Africa, here

  young men (‘Kindergarten’), here

  JB’s relations with, here, here, here

  policy and administration in South Africa, here, here, here

  encourages JB to write on South Africa, here

  and JB’s plans after South Africa appointment, here

  imperialist views, here

  JB serves in South Africa, here

  and JB’s joining Nelson’s, here

  in War Cabinet, here

  supports JB as Director of Information in Great War, here, here, here

  portrayed in Memory Hold-the-Door, here

  Milton Academy, Massachusetts, here

  Minto, Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of

  JB’s biography of, here, here

  Mole (manservant), here

  Montgomery, Hubert, here, here

  Montreal, here

  Montrose, James Graham, 1st Marquess of

  JB’s biography of, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Montrose (JB), here, here, here, here, here

  Moon Endureth, The (JB; stories and poems), here, here, here

  Moor Park, near Rickmansworth, here, here

  More, Henry, here

  Morning Post, The (newspaper), here

  Morrison, Professor Samuel, here

  Morrison, William Shepherd (‘Shakes’), here

  Mountain, The (JB; unfinished novel), here

  Mr Standfast (JB)

  Peter Pienaar character in, here, here

  climbing episode in, here

  Cuillins in, here

  Moxon Ivery character in, here

  Geordie Hamilton character in, here

  writing, here

  Great War in, here

  themes, here

  sales,
here, here

  on beauty of Cotswolds, here

  Sir Archie Roylance character in, here

  reader points out error in, here

  Mary Lamington character in, here

  Hannay’s funeral oration for Pienaar, here

  Mull, Isle of, here

  Munro, Neil, here

  Murray, Arthur, here

  Murray, Charles, here

  Murray, Professor Gilbert

  friendship with JB, here, here, here, here

  teaches at Glasgow University, here

  suggests JB try for Oxford scholarship, here

  JB sends first novel to, here

  and JB’s life and studies at Oxford, here, here, here

  and JB’s failure to gain All Souls Fellowship, here

  and JB’s love for South Africa, here

  and JB’s visit to Constantinople, here

  and JB’s wartime propaganda work, here

  congratulates JB on The Thirty-Nine Steps, here

  propaganda work in war, here, here

  visits USA in war, here

  supports imprisoned conscientious objectors, here

  praises JB speech on freedom, here

  and Roosevelt’s ‘Quarantine speech’, here

  Murray, Sir John, here

  Murray, Lady Mary (née Howard), here, here, here, here, here, here

  Musa Piscatrix (JB), here

  ‘Muse of the Angle, The’ (JB; article), here

  ‘Muse of History, The’ (JB; address), here

  Mussolini, Benito, here

  Naesmyth, Sir James, here

  Nash, Paul, here

  National Government, here, here

  National Library of Scotland

  established, here

  National War Aims Committee, here, here, here

  Nations of Today, The (JB), here

  Natomas Syndicate, here

  Neilson, Professor Keith, here

  Nelson, Ian, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Nelson, Margaret, here, here

  Nelson, Thomas & Sons (publishers)

  JB joins, here, here, here, here, here, here

  becomes Company, here

  wartime staff shortage, here

  post-war condition and reform, here

  educational books, here

  JB renews agreement with, here

  JB leaves, here

  Nelson, Tommy

  friendship with JB at Oxford, here, here

  invites JB to join Thomas Nelson publishers, here, here

  JB stays with, here, here

  enlists and serves in war, here, here, here

  The Thirty-Nine Steps dedicated to, here, here

  JB meets in France, here

  death in war, here, here

  JB memorialises, here

  Nelson’s History of the War (JB), here, here, here, here, here

  revised, here, here

  Nevinson, C.R.W., here, here

  New, E.H., here

  Newbolt, Sir Henry, here, here, here, here

  Newbolt, Margaret, Lady, here, here

  Newdigate Prize

  JB wins, here

  Newman, Cardinal John Henry, here

 

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