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...perhaps Nazimuddin had a point. Ghulam Mohammad succeeded to the governor-generalship when Nazimuddin stepped down in 1951. Now that Ghulam Mohammad had the title, however, he was Queen Elizabeth's official representative in the British Dominion of Pakistan and in the theory of British government has the monarch's delegated power to dismiss or appoint ministers and governments (in England, no monarch since the days of George III had dared invoke that power without the sanction of Parliament). Pakistan, however, is a special case: only 5½ years a nation, it functions under the 1935 Government...
...stage whisper, Mossadegh complained of court intrigues, threatened to resign and "go to the people" for a showdown. As it had before, the threat won him an invitation to talk it over with the Shah. For four hours the fiery old demagogue and the uncertain young monarch conferred. Quickly the secret got out-Mossadegh had persuaded the Shah to leave Iran-ostensibly for a vacation, possibly as the first step toward abdication...
Three commissions, mutually agreeable to Egypt and Britain, will police the operation. The most important one is a commission which during the transition may veto acts of British Governor General Sir Robert Howe, uncrowned monarch of the Sudan. Two Sudanese, an Egyptian, an Englishman and a Pakistani will form the commission; thus it will have a Moslem majority-a concession by the British, who had long argued that the 2,000,000 half-clad, ignorant natives of the South Sudan had to be protected against the Arab majority in the north...
...This picture of Britain's monarch became...
They may be the monarch's own hair; their colors agree with historical records. The single exception: the eyebrows of Edward III, which are dog hair...