The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs

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John Castell Hopkins
Annual Review Publishing Company, 1927
 

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Page 657 - The Members of the League agree to encourage and promote the establishment and co-operation of duly authorized voluntary national Red Cross organizations having as purposes the improvement of health, the prevention of disease and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world.
Page 139 - I should remind your excellency that there are certain regions of the world the welfare and integrity of which constitute a special and vital interest for our peace and safety. His Majesty's Government have been at pains to make it clear in the past that interference with these regions cannot be suffered. Their protection against attack is to the British Empire a measure of self-defence. It must be clearly understood that His Majesty's Government in Great Britain accept the new treaty upon the distinct...
Page 139 - Excellency that there are certain regions of the world, the welfare and integrity of which constitute a special and vital interest for our peace and safety.
Page 709 - And we certify that in our opinion the balance sheet is properly drawn up so as to show the true financial position of the...
Page 56 - We gave these matters the best consideration possible in the limited time at our disposal, but came to the conclusion that the issues involved were so complex that there would be grave danger in attempting any immediate pronouncement other than a statement of certain principles which, in our opinion, underlie the whole question of the operation of Dominion legislation.
Page 160 - We believe that if a reasonable time were permitted in which to enable the resultant power to be economically absorbed the development of this national section would be undertaken by private agencies able and willing to finance the entire work, including the necessary canalization, in return for the right to develop the power.
Page 162 - ... States should consider undertaking the completion of a 27-foot waterway to the head of the Lakes, in addition to meeting the entire cost of the development, under joint technical supervision on lines to be agreed upon, of the international section of the St. Lawrence, both for navigation and for power. The construction of the wholly Canadian (Welland and St. Lawrence) sections, and, if the United States should see fit, of the upper lakes works, would, on this plan, be given precedence of the...
Page 422 - Jewish religion? (3) Can the Provincial Legislature pass legislation providing that persons professing the Jewish religion be appointed — (a) to the Protestant Board of School Commissioners of Montreal; or (b) to the Protestant Committee of Public Instruction; or (c) as advisory members of these bodies?
Page 421 - Act and by special laws, persons professing the Jewish religion shall, for school purposes, be treated in the same manner as Protestants, and, for the said purposes, shall be subject to the same obligations and shall enjoy the same rights and privileges as the latter.
Page 140 - Convinced that all changes in their relations with one another should be sought only by pacific means and be the result of a peaceful and orderly process, and that any signatory Power which shall hereafter seek to promote its national interests by resort to war should be denied the benefits furnished by this Treaty...

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