The Annual Register, Volumen 148Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1907 Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Términos y frases comunes
amendment announced appeal appointed Army asked authority Balfour Birrell Bishop Board British Catholic Chamberlain Chancellor Chinese labour Church clause Colonial Commission Committee Council debate declared defended denominational desire discussion duty Earl Education Bill election Estimates expenditure favour fiscal foreign Free Trade German given Home House of Lords increase interest Ireland Irish J. M. Robertson Keir Hardie King Labour members land late Government legislation Liberal London Lord Milner majority March Marquess measure ment Ministry motion moved native naval Nonconformist officers Opposition Orange River Colony Parliament Parliamentary party passed Plural Voting political President Prime Minister proposed protest question railway reduction regard rejected religious instruction reply resolution revenue scheme second reading Secretary Sir Charles Dilke Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman South Africa speech Tariff Reform teachers teaching tion trade unions Transvaal Unionist voluntary schools votes Winston Churchill
Pasajes populares
Página 397 - Shall not be removed except by the Governor-General in Council, on an address from both Houses of the Parliament in the same session, praying for such removal on the ground of proved misbehaviour or incapacity.
Página 432 - That the Government of Cuba shall never enter into any treaty or other compact with any foreign power or powers which will impair or tend to impair the independence of Cuba, nor in any manner authorize or permit any foreign power or powers to obtain by colonization or for military or naval purposes or otherwise lodgment in or control over any portion of said island.
Página 446 - Let us pledge ourselves to aid each other in the full performance of the duty to humanity which that accepted declaration implies, so that in time the weakest and most unfortunate of our Republics may come to march with equal step by the side of the stronger and more fortunate. Let us help each other to show that for all the races of men the liberty for which we have fought and labored is the twin sister of justice and peace.
Página 434 - The provisional government hereby established by direction and in the name of the President of the United States will be maintained only long enough to restore order and peace and public confidence, and then to hold such elections as may be necessary to determine those persons upon whom the permanent government of the Republic should be devolved.
Página 57 - I hold that fiscal reform is, and must remain, the first constructive work of the Unionist party ; that the objects of such reform are to secure more equal terms of competition for British trade and closer commercial union with the Colonies...
Página 432 - Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty...
Página 250 - Constitution are not wholly exhausted, the resources of the House of Commons are not exhausted, and I say with conviction that a way must be found, a way will be found, by which the will of the people expressed through their elected representatives in this House will be made to prevail.
Página 446 - Within a few months, for the first time the recognized possessors of every foot of soil upon the American continents can be, and I hope will be, represented with the acknowledged rights of equal sovereign states in the great World Congress at The Hague.
Página 381 - The Government of Great Britain engages not to annex Tibetan territory or to interfere in the administration of Tibet. The Government of China also undertakes not to permit any other foreign State to interfere with the territory or internal administration of Tibet.
Página 446 - We deem the independence and equal rights of the smallest and weakest member of the family of nations entitled to as much respect as those of the greatest empire, and we deem the observance of that respect the chief guaranty of the weak against the oppression of the strong. We neither claim nor desire any rights or privileges or powers that we do not freely concede to every American Republic.