Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen in my lifetime the steady Balkanization and disruption of Europe." he said. "Europe has suffered wars. It has torn itself to pieces twice in my lifetime like the ancient states of Greece. [Now] a great future opens up, a great progressive future. If Western Europe, including the United Kingdom could develop into a free trading area, this would be a source of great strength-a common market of nearly 250 million people...
Much as India's Nehru may hate the term, his government has always regarded the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal (pop. 8,500,000) as an Indian "sphere of influence." After the Chinese Communists moved into Tibet in 1950, Nehru said flatly: "The defense of Nepal is important to the security of India...
...British Atomic Chief Sir Edwin Plowden told a World Bank symposium that when the world's first civilian power plant starts operating at Calder Hall this month "the total cost of power . . . should be approximately the same as that from coal-or oil-fired stations in the United Kingdom." Plowden also sketched a timetable for commercial nuclear power in other parts of the world, foresaw its arrival in France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain and South Australia in the early 1960s. Scandinavian countries in the 1970s. Russia and the U.S., added Plowden. "will have a number of 'power demonstration...
...eleventh annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund last week, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macrnillan spoke somberly: "The financial policy of the United Kingdom remains unchanged. However, we shall continue to take such steps as we can to liberalize our arrangements for trade and payments." With these words, Macmillan dampened a cherished hope of economists everywhere that free world currencies would soon become fully convertible, thus permitting anyone earning money in foreign trade to change it into any other currency, spend it where he chooses without restriction. The explanation is that the pound sterling, dominating...
...terrible curse against his enemies: Pope Clement V. his prosecutor, Guillaume de Nogaret, and the coldly handsome King Philip IV of France. Historians still argue over the guilt or innocence of the Templars,*but most agree that they had to be swept away before Philip's kingdom could become a nation of Frenchmen instead of warring congeries of Burgundians, Gascons, Provengals, Normans. To unite France, Philip set out not only to destroy the Templars but to defeat the great barons, carry blood and sword to the rebellious Flemings, even capture the Papacy and remove it from Rome to Avignon...