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Garbett, Most Reverend and Right Honourable Cyril Foster, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1944), 2 May 1944, 477-487     Why we went to war. A brief review of the war situation for Britain. Stress now on the building up of a new order when peace comes. The need for a better international order, if there are to be socia

Davies, Major G. Fay, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1945), 30 Nov 1944, 163-184     Questions about postwar conditions. The Toronto Reconstruction Council: makeup, terms of reference, plans and policies. Making provision for employment and social security. Finding a basis of operati

Jenks, C. Wilfred, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1944), 13 Apr 1944, 422-441     The convening next week, in Philadelphia, of the International Labour Organization in its twenty-sixth session, and reaction to that convening. Preparing detailed plans for the action which must be t

Tsiang, Dr. Tingfu F., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1945), 28 Sep 1944, 18-29     Canada and China as close neighbours. Economic development as the key to many of China's problems. The war in the Far East. Japan's modern strength and how it has developed. Reasons for China's relat

Wassell, Commander Corydon M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1945), 21 Nov 1944, 133-147     Personal opinions, anecdotes, and reminiscences of the speaker. Some topics covered include manufacturing, the motion picture industry, the English, the speaker's assignment in the Far East.

Rogers, Hon. Will. Jr., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1944), 6 Apr 1944, 405-421     The speaker's contention that what we do in the Pacific after this war is far more important than what we do in Europe, and why he believes this to be so. Asia about to take a great leap across the c

de Lotbiniere, S.J., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1944), 20 Apr 1944, 442-458     Reference to St. George's Day next Sunday. The fight against Goebbels and his propaganda machine. Goebbels as the "dragon-in-the-bed" analogy. The B.B.C. countering Goebbels. A look back at the summe

Harding, Gilbert, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1945), 19 Oct 1944, 55-70     Readings from recent articles in Toronto newspapers. This topic of the postwar treatment of Germany vitally important in a time when Canadian youths are so pessimistic. The danger of forgetting the c

Turner, Mrs. Phyllis G., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1944), 27 Jan 1944, 252-268     The rebuilding of the postwar world as an opportunity of building a world in which the great advances of modern science can be applied to the development of an organization of human society which wil

Drew, Lieut.-Colonel The Hon. George A., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1944), 11 Jan 1944, 213-224     What Britain is like in the fifth year of war. A number of impressions from the speaker's visit. Signs of destruction less noticeable. Lots of buildings in need of repair and paint. First impressions