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 Cordiner, Ralph Jarron, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1955), 31 Mar 1955, 243-254     A brief personal background. Acting on Ambassador Stuart's suggestion concerning the value of the interchange of viewpoints, an exploration and discussion of problems existing in the United States, with emphasis on a few examples of problems which can be turned into opportunities for continued growth and progress if we can …

 Pilkington, Sir Harry, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1956), 1 Dec 1955, 126-135     Recalling the speaker's last speech to the Empire Club 15 years ago. Looking at what has and hasn't changed since then, especially in terms of the economy. The effects of war on Britain's economy. Britain's need to earn dollars; to earn them from exports to Canada. Canada's need for the …

 Hurley, Colonel James Joseph, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1956), 27 Oct 1955, 58-70     Ways in which the speaker represents Canada: diplomatically, commercially, and in the Colombo Plan. The City of Colombo and the Island of Ceylon: an orientation and description. The two races on the Island. Government, culture, independence. Economic problems. Our interest in the Island's future. Commodities on which Ceylon's economy is …

 Bassett, John Jr., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1956), 16 Jun 1955, 1-13     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto and the Life Underwriters Association. A personal report of a recent trip to Europe. The speaker's opportunity to meet and speak with the important political leaders of Italy, France, Belgium and Great Britain; also to …

 McGeachy, J.B., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1955), 20 Jan 1955, 151-160     Reflections on the Canadian Parliament. Parliament in the news. The various ways the House of Commons is giving thought to improvements in its procedure. A look at Parliament in the setting of contemporary world politics. Some remarks on Parliament in general. A decline in prestige. Two famous statements about the …

 Goldring, Dr. C.C., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1955), 3 Mar 1955, 213-216     Education Week in Canada from March 6th to the 12th. Purpose of Education Week. Introduction of special guests. The process of imparting to citizens information about schools and their work: two channels which are used most frequently. Appealing to the eye in open houses; words which will be spoken in …

 Beaudoin, Hon. Rene, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1956), 17 Nov 1955, 101-110     The third session of the 22nd Parliament, summoned by Royal Proclamation, and issued upon the advice of the Cabinet for the dispatch of business to get under way on January 10th next. A description of how the first session will open and proceed. Some history and background of parliament and …

 Whitehead, Commander, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1956), 3 Nov 1955, 71-89     Automation and the development of the mechanical age. A reconsideration of the growing significance of the human factor. Mechanization and the introduction of new and fantastically powerful weapons and explosives during the Second World War. The human factor remaining of supreme importance and the need for adjustment of outmoded points …

 Martin, the Honourable Paul, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1955), 24 Feb 1955, 205-212     The beginning, tomorrow, in London, of a meeting of five men representing five nations on a matter vitally affecting the peace of the world, the question of disarmament. The urgency of the need for solving the problems that harass the world. The choice before us of destruction or the dawning …

 Weeks, Edward, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1956), 12 Oct 1955, 43-49     Some constant qualities of Canada and Canadians. Some illusions about each other (Americans and Canadians). Canada's new-found resourcefulness and her ability to speak her independent mind. Canada as one of the coming nations of the future. The effect of prosperity on Canadian Literature. Good writing provoked by change. Ways in …

 Thomson, Roy Herbert, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1955), 6 Jan 1955, 124-138     A telling of the story of the removal of the Coronation Stone in the chapel of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey in 1950. The history of the Stone. Reactions to this removal in England. A different response in Scotland. What the participants hoped to gain by their deed; why …

 MacFarlane, J.A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1955), 13 Jan 1955, 139-150     No lack of public interest in medical affairs. A brief history of medicine, and interest in it going back to the earliest writing of Egypt, Arabia, Greece and Rome. The development of medical science in Britain, on the continent, in the United States and in Canada. The twelve medical schools …

 Valk, Frederick, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1956), 20 Oct 1955, 50-57     A brief discussion of the Art of Acting. Some words on the theatre. Some history, background and origins. The Greek theatre. The general plight of artists. Subsidized theatre. Canadian theatre and the lack of government subsidy. The Crest Theatre in Toronto. The speaker's belief that Canada's theatre has a future …

 Reuther, Dr. Walter P., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1956), 11 Oct 1955, 26-42     A joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club of Toronto. The speaker's belief that we can all agree that peace in the world in which we live is an indivisible value and that Canada, the United States or any other part of the world can …

 Jones, Oakah L., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1955), 17 Mar 1955, 226-232     Some remarks about Toronto. How a company like Consumers' Gas and Natural Gas can help to make Toronto a "city of infinite beauty." A recent finding that the cost of manufacturing gas was so costly both labour and materialwise as to be pricing ourselves out of business. Looking for a …

 Farley, James A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1955), 21 Apr 1955, 283-294     The mission of our two countries (Canada and the United States) in today's world. The sharing of a common resource—the electric power of the magnificent spillway of the St. Lawrence River. Two nations that have attained the highest level of foreign relations known to civilization. The United States and Canada …

 Ambridge, Douglas White, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1955), 24 Mar 1955, 233-242     History of the forests and man's fascination with it. The forest as a mysterious place. Early man's veneration for the trees and forests. Groves of trees often the scene of religious exercises. An account of tree worship in Sir James G. Frazer's "The Golden Bough." A brief review of myths …

 Coldwell, M.J., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1956), 24 Nov 1955, 111-125     The speaker's recent completion of a cross-country tour, giving him an opportunity to see for himself some of the serious problems which confront Canadian primary producers. Industrial developments, particularly in the provinces West of the Maritimes. Great disparities of opportunity and wealth in the several regions of Canada; disparities between …

 Graham, Dr. Billy, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1956), 6 Oct 1955, 14-25     Some introductory remarks and anecdotes. The Empire Club's pride in the Commonwealth of Nations, and in the Commonwealth of Canada. The awareness that Great Britain, the United States and the entire world, are battling for our very survival. An economic, moral, political, religious battle against forces of materialism and humanism …

 Keys, David Arnold, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1955), 7 Apr 1955, 255-268     "No scientific discovery has created such devastating possibilities and at the same time offered vast opportunities for the benefit of mankind as that of the controlled release of atomic energy by nuclear fission." Fundamental research and peacetime uses of atomic energy providing basic knowledge upon which the present and future …