Tárogató, 1948-1949 (11. évfolyam, 1-8. szám)
1948-11-01 / 5. szám
16 TÁROGATÓ SHORT ITEMS The Government of Poland has agreed to undertake the protection of Hungarian interests in Canada in the absence of direct Hungarian representation in this country. All enquiries concerning Hungarian interests in Canada should be directed to the Minister of Poland, 183 Carling Avenue, Ottawa. * * ❖ Between 1928 and 1933 Canadian production, measured at market prices, dropped 42 per ecnt. Apart from a slight recession in 1938, the gross national product moved steadily upward after 1933; but by 1939, the last pre-war year, it was still six per cent below the 1928 level. ❖ * * Formation of the first Department Joint Council in the Public Service of Canada was announced in Ottawa recently by the Department of Mines and Resources, the Civil Service Association of Ottawa, the Civil Service Federation of Canada and the Professional Institute of the Civil Service of Canada. * * * The Hungarian Government has introduced a law which does away with the distinctions between “established” and “tolerated” churches. All are now on an equal footing, and the Protestant communions, too, receive state aid. The strongest evangelical churches in Hungary are the Baptists, Methodists, Adventists, Plymouth Brethren and Jehovah’s Witnesses. * * * The annual Shakespeare season, which is Britain’s great national festival of the theatre, is held from April to October at Stratford-on-Avon, the birthplace of the bard. Huge crowds attend. * * * Adopting its largest budget in its 131- year history, the American Bible Society plans to spend nearly three million dollars this year for Bibles, Gospels and Testaments to be distributed in Europe and the Far East. Methodists in Great Britain plan to add about four hundred thousand dollars a year to their missionary budget, which, at some two million four hundred thousand dollars a year, is already larger than that of any other missionary society in Britain. * * * Dr. Watson Kirkonell, former heal of the English Department at McMaster and new President of historic Acadia University which has served the Baptists of Nova Scotia for one hundred and nine years, is a linguist of world renown, author of forty books, a lay preacher and Sunday School worker. * * * A cut-stone monument in commemmoration of Crowfoot, the famous Blackfoot Indian Chief, was unveiled recently at the Blackfoot Reserve near Gleichen, Alberta. The tablet was provided by the National Parks Service on the recommendation of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board. CANADIAN COUNCIL FOR RECONSTRUCTION AIDS CHILDREN OVERSEAS The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization sent a message recently to the Secretary Of State for External Affairs expressing pleasure at the work which is being accomplished by the Canadian Council for Reconstruction through UNESCO as a result of its recent national campaign for funds. The Canadian Council for reconstruction conducted a campaign jointly with the United Nations Appeal for Children under the title of “The Canadian Appeal for Children”. The Council’s plans to assist in the reconstruction of war-devastated countries, includes a shipment of 650 tons of school supplies and the establishment of a number of fellowships to enable foreign students to study in Canada. The Canadian Council for Reconstruction was established in Toronto a year ago in response to an appeal by UNESCO.
