MONTHLY COMMENTS

Jamaica

 

by

 

Ansell Hart

 

Volume 1. (October 1953 – April 1956)

 

 

Ansell Hart at his desk at Manton & Hart  circa 1950

 

Prepared For Web. March  2001

by Dr. John B. deMercado

Copyright Reserved by Hart Family


 

Foreword To Volume 1

 

Mr. Richard Hart has kindly provided this Volume of his father’s Monthly Comments for publication on this website.

 

The Copyright for the material is reserved by the Hart family, who have agreed that the material may be distributed free of charge for personal use only. They have stipulated that it not be altered or sold in any format.

 

Mr. Ansell Hart published Volume 1 of his Monthly Comments in 26 issues over a two-year period. The first issue, namely Volume 1 number 1, was published in October 1956 and the final issue of Volume 1 namely Number 26 was published in April of 1956.

 

Volume 1 as published on this web site contains all twenty-six issues and is around two hundred pages.

 

You may go to any section listed in the Table of Contents by "clicking" on the description given in the table.

 

Enjoy! 

 

Dr. John B. deMercado

Ottawa, Ontario

March 2001


INTRODUCTION  (Richard Hart).


 

 

 

 


Ansell Hart 1

Foreword To Volume 1. 2

INTRODUCTION  (Richard Hart). 3

Volume 1. No 1 -   October 1953. 8

THE COMMENTS. 8

POLITICS IN JAMAICA. 8

1860 AND ALL THAT. 8

OUR STATUES. 9

BOOK REVIEWS. 10

FOREIGN AFFAIRS. 10

FROM AN OLD SCRAPBOOK. 11

KENYA. 12

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS & SOCIAL REPERCUSSIONS. 14

Volume 1. No 2  - November 1953. 15

MAINLY HISTORICAL. 15

BRITISH GUIANA. 15

OUR MINISTERS' SALARIES. 15

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AND SOCIAL REPERCUSSION. 16

BOOK REVIEW-THE UNITED NATIONS AND POWER POLITICS-By John Maclaurin. 16

JAMAICAN PLACE NAMES. 18

OUR STATUES. 18

OUR HERITAGE. 18

1865 AND ALL THAT. 20

Volume 1. No. 3 -  May 1954. 22

From WALT WHITMAN. 22

JURIDICAL ANOMALIES. 22

THE LESSON OF 1865. 23

1865 AND ALL THAT. 23

GEORGE WILLIAM GORDON. 24

BOOK REVIEW - The Integration of the Personality by Carl J. Jung. 26

FROM MY SCRAP BOOK. 27

COMPETITION. 27

Volume 1. No.4- June 1954. 28

THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIME 1940-1954. 28

YOUR DAILY HOROSCOPE. 29

VIET NAM AND Viet Minh. 30

GEORGE WILLIAM GORDON. 30

BOOK REVIEW- DOCTRINE IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. 32

Volume 1. No. 5. - July 1954. 34

AS THE LAW GOES. 34

HISTORICAL PARALLELS - 1820's-1920's 34

SPEAKER MORALES. 35

HISTORY ITS USES AND ABUSES. 36

GEORGE WILLIAM GORDON. 36

A COLOUR SCHEME. 37

AT GENEVA. 39

OUR MAY COMPETITION. 39

Volume 1. No.6 -  August 1954. 41

CAUSERIES. 41

GEORGE WILLIAM GORDON. 41

COLOUR SCHEME. 42

GUATEMALA. 44

INTERNATIONAL MORAL DEGENERACY. 45

JEWISH DOCTRINE. 46

FROM MY SCRAP BOOK. 47

Volume 1. No. 7- September 1954. 49

CAUSERIES. 49

ON JUDICATURE - (1896 to 1920) 49

GEORGE WILLIAM GORDON. 51

COLOUR SCHEME. 53

CHINA AND UNITED NATIONS. 54

CATHOLIC DOCTRINE. 55

Volume 1. No. 8 - October 1954. 57

CAUSERIES. 57

CONSTITUTIONAL TIT-BITS. 58

GEORGE WILLIAM GORDON. 59

COLOUR SCHEME. 60

FORMOSA. 62

ECONOMIC AND, POLITICAL FACTORS IN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY. 62

RELIGIOUS THOUGHT IN THE EAST. 63

Volume 1. No. 9. - November 1954. 65

CAUSERIES. 65

CONSTITUTIONAL TIT-BITS. 65

GEORGE WILLIAM GORDON. 66

SIXTY YEARS AGO - KINGSTON AND SUBURBS. 68

COLOUR SCHEME. 69

COMMUNIST - CAPITALIST RELATIONS -1917 - 1954. 70

PAMPHLET REVIEW. "Is this Socialism", a New Statesman & Nation Pamphlet By Professor G. D. H. COLE 71

Volume 1. No. 10 - December 1954. 73

CAUSERIES. 73

GEORGE WILLIAM GORDON.