Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assuming that Russia has none) outside the U.S.? This explosive question has been the subject of hole-&-corner discussions in at least three capitals-London, Washington, Ottawa-for months. Some time ago it was rumored that Britain had obtained atomic bombs from the U.S. for stockpiling in the United Kingdom. The rumor proved false. It was also whispered that the U.S. carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, on its recent visit to the eastern Mediterranean, had The Bomb on board. That one also proved untrue...
...like the old saying, "For want of a nail, the shoe was lost," and so on up to the loss of a kingdom. But it worked in reverse, like this: the Big Four's Foreign Ministers in Manhattan could write all five peace treaties (Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania, Finland) if they could write the Italian treaty; they could write the Italian treaty if they could agree on Trieste; they could agree on Trieste if they could fix the U.N.-appointed governor's powers; they could fix the governor's powers if they could decide who would boss...
This week at The Hague Dr. Johannes A. Ringers, Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction, quit the Cabinet in protest over the agreement, and some leaders of the Catholic party's right wing also objected. Premier Louis J. M. Beel (Catholic party) stood pat, said: "The kingdom will neither be broken nor murdered. It will be remodeled and named according to the requirements of our time...
...asked if they had the power to recommend that Newfoundland join the U.S. Replied the convention's British-appointed constitutional expert, Oxford don K. C. Wheare: "Yes . . . but [you] will have to get the consent of the U.S. Government and of course . . . the consent of the United Kingdom...
Died. The Marchioness of Anglesey, 63, artist daughter of the Duke of Rutland, who more than a generation ago so charmed the Court of Edward VII that Queen Alexandra called her "the most beautiful girl in the Kingdom"; in London...