The Annual Register, Volumen156Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1915 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. |
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... peace of Ulster , and sharp controversies on subjects so widely different as the discipline of the Church of England and the needs of naval defence . Though conversations were understood to have been resumed between the Liberal and ...
... peace of Ulster , and sharp controversies on subjects so widely different as the discipline of the Church of England and the needs of naval defence . Though conversations were understood to have been resumed between the Liberal and ...
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... peace . The anxiety was heightened by the proceedings in Belfast ( Jan. 17-19 ) . Sir Edward Carson arrived on the 17th , inspected the East Belfast Regiment , and emphasised the deter- mination of the force to resist Home Rule . On the ...
... peace . The anxiety was heightened by the proceedings in Belfast ( Jan. 17-19 ) . Sir Edward Carson arrived on the 17th , inspected the East Belfast Regiment , and emphasised the deter- mination of the force to resist Home Rule . On the ...
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... Peace , was being forcibly fed and brutally treated by the jail authorities . The Bishop , how- ever , after personally investigating the matter and talking to Miss Peace , satisfied himself that the statement was unfounded . The Home ...
... Peace , was being forcibly fed and brutally treated by the jail authorities . The Bishop , how- ever , after personally investigating the matter and talking to Miss Peace , satisfied himself that the statement was unfounded . The Home ...
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... peace among themselves . British policy , throughout , had made for peace . But trade was damaged , not only by war , but by the waste involved in armament expenditure . A slackening by one country , however , would rather stimulate the ...
... peace among themselves . British policy , throughout , had made for peace . But trade was damaged , not only by war , but by the waste involved in armament expenditure . A slackening by one country , however , would rather stimulate the ...
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... peace and goodwill . A compromise was suggested in a pamphlet by Mr. F. S. Oliver ( " Pacificus " ) and an unnamed collaborator ― viz . suspension of the Home Rule Bill , which gave Ireland more powers than she would have as a State in ...
... peace and goodwill . A compromise was suggested in a pamphlet by Mr. F. S. Oliver ( " Pacificus " ) and an unnamed collaborator ― viz . suspension of the Home Rule Bill , which gave Ireland more powers than she would have as a State in ...
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Página 455 - I ask this of you in support of the foreign policy of the administration. I shall not know how to deal with other matters of even greater delicacy and nearer consequence if you do not grant it to me in ungrudging measure.
Página 462 - Rather than having one central bank in the political capital, as in central banking systems of most countries, the Federal Reserve System is divided into 12 districts, each with a Federal Reserve Bank— in Boston. New York. Philadelphia. Cleveland. Richmond. Atlanta.
Página 241 - ... affairs, the chancellor of the exchequer, and the first lord of the admiralty; with Admiral Fisher, General Wolfe Murray, the CIGS, and the inevitable Balfour, and Hankey as secretary.
Página 314 - Government had been obliged to take this step— namely that they had to advance into France by the quickest and easiest way— so as to be able to get well ahead with their operations and endeavour to strike some decisive blow as early as possible. It was a matter of life and death for them, as if they had gone by the more southern route they could not have hoped, in view of the paucity of roads and the strength of the Fortresses, to have got through without formidable opposition entailing great...
Página 60 - His Majesty's Government must retain their right to use all the forces of the Crown in Ireland or elsewhere to maintain law and order and to support the civil power in the ordinary execution of its duty. But they have no intention whatever of taking advantage of this ' right to crush political opposition to the policy or principles of the
Página 314 - The Ambassador pressed me as to whether I could not formulate conditions on which we would remain neutral. He even suggested that the integrity of France and her colonies might be guaranteed. I said that I felt obliged to refuse definitely any promise to remain neutral on similar terms, and I could only say that we must keep our hands free.
Página 168 - ... of its own directly at stake, should present a united front, and be able to speak and act with the authority of an undivided nation.
Página 458 - I never went into battle; I never was under fire ; but I fancy that there are some things just as hard to do as to go under fire. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
Página 188 - You are leaving home to fight for the safety and honour of my Empire. " Belgium, whose country we are pledged to defend, has been attacked and France is about to be invaded by the same powerful foe. " I have implicit confidence in you my soldiers. Duty is your watchword, and I know your duty will be nobly done.
Página 332 - Government ; and, finally, 10. To notify the Imperial and Royal Government without delay of the execution of the measures comprised under the preceding heads. The Austro-Hungarian Government expects the reply of the Royal Government at the latest by 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, the 25th July.