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 DuBose, McNeely, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 15 Feb 1951, 229-240     The speaker's experience in working with aluminum. Some statistics with regard to Canadian aluminum production. Reasons for the rapid increase in the use of aluminum and why the original producers are the ones who have always borne the brunt of expanding production facilities. The many unusual things about aluminum. The …

 Clutterbuck, Hon. Sir Alexander, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 8 Feb 1951, 219-228     Looking ahead in the Commonwealth. Living in difficult times today. A review of 1950. A marked economic revival in Britain. Canada's economic expansion. A great new economic surge forward in Western Europe. At the same time, the sudden invasion of Korea which burst like a bombshell on the world. The …

 Whitton, Charlotte, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 1 Mar 1951, 262-281     Strains and tensions in the world today. Two contributing factors: the acceptance, for more than a generation now, of a purely deterministic and materialist psychology that "man's destiny lies within his own will" and the natural pre-eminent importance attached to the acquisition of the means of livelihood and enjoyment of …

 Morse, Wayne, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 11 Jan 1951, 167-178     Reference to development of the St. Lawrence Waterway, and the speaker's intention at the next session of Congress to see what can be done to bring about its completion, considered by the speaker to be a great link in national defence. An outline of the speaker's conception of the role …

 Pattison, Ethel Ely, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 29 Mar 1951, 322-333     The speaker's background and experience. Some history pertaining to agriculture. The recent history of agricultural education at formal institutions. The work of the UNRRA and the speaker's position as Seed Co-Ordinator for that organization. Agricultural work in the USSR and in Europe. Details of the programmes. Wheat production in Russia, …

 Bradley, Hon. F. Gordon, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 22 Feb 1951, 241-251     A discussion of Empire, and Empires. The British Empire or the British Commonwealth and the Empire of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as the remaining Empires. Picturing the beginning, the rise to power, and the development of the British Empire to discover the wide divergence from the salient features …

 Philip, Percy James, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1952), 29 Nov 1951, 110-120     "Trouble always begins with rudeness and insults." The discarding of the art of diplomacy and the necessity to return to it if we want to prevent the hysterical way we are quarreling publicly about peace to turn into a shooting war. The speaker's belief that the United Nations Organisation does …

 Chisholm, Major-General Brock, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 5 Apr 1951, 334-345     The vast problem of world health, with its many facets. The limits of statistics on world health. The changing concept of health. The long history of international health. The World Health Organization as the latest step in this long history and progress. Details of the WHO. Other Specialized Agencies of …

 Saunders, Robert Hood, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1952), 11 Oct 1951, 39-49     Looking back 40 years to Sir Adam Beck, an "empire builder." His vision of Ontario as a great industrial empire, drawing its strength from a well-stocked reservoir of low-cost power. The growth of Ontario's Hydro system to its present status of a billion dollar enterprise, with 1,132 municipalities welded together …

 Gardiner, Rt. Hon. James G., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1952), 15 Nov 1951, 94-99     The speaker's belief that what Canada does in the next twenty-five years will have a greater effect upon the future of the human race than what is done in any other single country in the world in the same period. Canada as part of the British Commonwealth of Nations; the …

 Costain, Thomas B., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 8 Mar 1951, 282-297     The speaker's background. The speaker's belief that there are some things we must do for our future and his hope that we will get around to doing them. A cultural review. Changes in the field of the arts; freedom of expression for the author, the artist, the composer. The revolution …

 Wilson, Charles Erwin, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 4 Jan 1951, 153-166     Some introductory remarks about the co-operation enjoyed at General Motors from the business men of Toronto and of others throughout all Ontario and Canada; about Canada's future and its potential. The dependence of the United States on Canada's resources. General Motors' confidence in Canada, now and in the future. Details …

 Rau, Sir Benegal Narsing, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 26 Apr 1951, 378-385     The similar democracies that are India and Canada—the type where the Executive and the Legislature cannot long be in conflict; the British Parliamentary type, as distinct from the Presidential type. Some details and history of this type of democracy. The Sukraniti, from the 12th century A.D., which embodies the doctrines …

 Porter, Hon. Dana, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1952), 4 Oct 1951, 25-38     A look at Canada's Constitution. Reference to Sir Wilfrid Laurier's prediction that the Twentieth Century would be Canada's century. Vast changes since the early decades of the 1900's. Canada's development as a free Canada within a united Empire. One peculiarity of Canada's position: we have arrived at our present status …

 Freedman, Max, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 22 Mar 1951, 310-321     A review of American foreign policy. The attitude of the American government towards India. Being "proud within the British Commonwealth of peoples, that we have brought into our community the staid wisdom of the East, to reinforce our independence of the Commonwealth." The difficulty of understanding India's policy. Some temporary …

 Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield and Lady Tweedsmuir, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 18 Jan 1951, 179-191     Lord Tweedsmuir Russia's intentions. The British Commonwealth. The recent conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers. Focus on the Far East. The most significant event in the last six years of Communism engulfing China and China in turn engulfing Tibet. Fighting in Korea, Indo-China, and Malaya. The concept of the "rice bowl" …

 Pearson, Hon. Lester B., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1951), 10 Apr 1951, 346-358     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto. The complicated and difficult time for foreign policy. Reasons why that is so. Scientific achievements outstripping social and moral development. The special difficulties of the formulation of foreign policy for a country like Canada. The …

 Boss, William, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1952), 5 Sep 1951, 14-24     Canadian troops in Korea. First impressions of Korea. The attitude of Canadian soldiers to the Korean people and of the Korean people to the West. The need for education. The destruction of Korea. Material and personnel contributions to the war by Korea. Poorly trained Korean soldiers. Some illustrations of the …

 Heeney, Arnold D.P., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1952), 25 Oct 1951, 65-73     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The United nations Association in Canada (Toronto Branch) United Nations Day yesterday—the sixth anniversary of the coming into force of that great agreement between nations—The United Nations Charter. The conjunction of Empire Club and United Nations Association. The future of …

 Gregg, Hon. Milton F., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1952), 22 Nov 1951, 100-109     Some features of labour relations in Canada yesterday and today. The year in which the speaker became Minister of Labour; the year which marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Labour; also the year of the railway strike—a labour stoppage of nine days which resulted in …