The Archive · 1941

Mr, MeDonald's Address In assailing the Resolution Mr

Ranald MeDonold said: "I address you as such, because politically or Inunlelpally this is the most solemn and momentous question with which you or your predecessors have ever Deen "confronted. In case by any chance I am prevented as I was, about this time last year, from speaking and expressing my views, T witt say now that 1 fundamentally relates to distraint, is riot now sub-tilted to. you for approval. It was represented to your Council and your Council agreed that this question needed further studying. fu. sub: stance all, therefore, that you are asked to do in regard to proposed bye-law LIL is to agree that appeals Irom assessments made by the Council should go to a committee of rate. payers, who shall not be members of Councit or Council employees." the proposal of Mr. Keswleke, second. ed by Mr. G.E. Mitchell, the resolu ton "was passed without'a dissenting voice, In moving Resolution 1V regarding the Provisional Council brought for= ward by the same proposer and with and eternally opposed to this Resolu~ ton which, in my opinion, is one of the most "monstrous. abortions ever conceived by the mind of man, reigardless of race or creed. It is damn-is a sanguinary' resolution.

Have you realized its significance? Most of many or some of you may have read Mr, W. J. Keswiek's speech—It, was the thinnest coating of sugar on the most deadly prussic acid pill which 1, at any rate, have ever seen. Verbol assurances' made by anyone, particularly with regard to the actions of other people, over whom the person making. thei, has tio control, are as valueless as the plague of pacts and covenants or even Kentlemen's agreements with which Mr. 1 Okamoto as seconder, Mr, Kes- the world har for the last' twenty

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