Roosevelt, Mackenzie King and the Royal Visit to the USA in 1939
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Abstract
In May 1939 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth began a month-long tour \nof Canada that also included a brief visit to the United States. The timing of \nthis visit was fortuitous from the British point of view coming as it did soon \nafter the controversial Munich agreement in September 1938, which ceded the \nCzech Sudetenland to Germany, and the subsequent occupation of the remainder of the Czech state by German troops in March 1939—both of which had \ndamaged Britain's image in America. The Royal Visit to the USA was a great \npublic relations success, as was the visit to Canada, and its significance for \nrelations between Britain, Canada and the United States has been discussed by \na number of historians from all three countries. However, very little attention \nhas been paid to the key role of the Canadian Prime Minister, William Lyon \nMackenzie King, regarding the American phase of the Royal Visit. This article \ntherefore seeks to fill this gap by assessing Mackenzie King's involvement in \nthe origins and conduct of the visit. It also reflects upon what the Royal Visit \nreveals about Canada's relations with Britain and the United States and Mackenzie King's relationship with President Franklin Roosevelt.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".