The Annual Register, Volume 161Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1920 - Books 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. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
æther agreed Allied and Associated amendment announced appointed Army ARTICLE Assembly Associated Powers August Austria Belgium Bill Bolsheviks Bonar Law boundary Britain British Bulgaria Cabinet cent clauses coal Commission Committee Council Covenant debate declared delegates demands dispute districts Donald Maclean East Prussia elected Empire Eric Geddes expenditure favour Federation force Foreign France French frontier Geddes Government held Herr House of Commons industry Ireland Italy J. H. Thomas January King Labour Party leaders League of Nations Lloyd George London Lord M.P. Rt majority March meeting ment military miners Ministry months nationalisation negotiations organisation Paris Parliament Parliamentary Secretary passed Peace Conference Poland political present treaty President Wilson Prime Minister Principal Allied proposed question railway recognised regard Reparation representatives resigned resolution Rumanians Russia second reading Signor Sinn Fein Sir Auckland Geddes Socialists speech strike territory tion Trade Union vote wages
Popular passages
Page 84 - In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by the prescription of open, just and honourable relations between nations, by the firm establishment of the understandings of international law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations in the dealings of organised peoples with one another, Agree to this Covenant...
Page 188 - Treaty, decisions at any meeting of the Assembly or of the Council shall require the agreement of all the Members of the League represented at the meeting.
Page 87 - The Court shall be competent to hear and determine any dispute of an international character which the parties thereto submit to it. The Court may also give an advisory opinion upon any dispute or question referred to it by the Council or by the Assembly.
Page 84 - THE high contracting parties, in order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security by the acceptance of obligations not to resort to war, by the prescription of open, just, and honorable relations between nations, by the firm establishment of the understandings of International law as the actual rule of conduct among Governments, and by the maintenance of Justice and a scrupulous respect for all treaty obligations In the dealings of organized peoples with...
Page 85 - Assembly shall meet at stated intervals and from time to time as occasion may require at the Seat of the League or at such other place as may be decided upon.
Page 87 - It is also declared to be the friendly right of each Member of the League to bring to the attention of the Assembly or of the Council any circumstance whatever affecting international relations which threatens to disturb international peace or the good understanding between nations upon which peace depends.
Page 86 - The members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all members of the League.
Page 90 - No such amendment shall bind any Member of the League which signifies its dissent therefrom, but in that case it shall cease to be a Member of the League.
Page 89 - The high contracting parties will endeavor to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labor for men, women and children both in their own countries and in all countries to which their commercial and industrial relations extend...
Page 86 - The expenses of the Secretariat shall be borne by the members of the League in accordance with the apportionment of the expenses of the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union.