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Whoever controls these agencies will gain awesome political powers???and take on major financial risks. The lenders will be able to tell the borrowing nations that, if they want money, they must change certain economic policies, and perhaps some military and diplomatic policies as well. But the lenders will also carry the enormous risks of suffering loan defaults. Nobody minds having the political powers that go with lending, but nobody wants the risks...
Liking for Rule. The monarchy in Greece was established in 1833 soon after the Turks were driven out and Greece achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire after four centuries in its bondage. The three protecting powers???England, France and Russia?decided that the Greeks should have a non-Greek king on the throne. Oddly, the Greeks readily agreed, giving rise to the later saying: "No Greek will ever tolerate another Greek for his sovereign." The first was a Bavarian, who was dethroned after a revolution...
Rockefeller is one of that little group of men who sit at the financial hub of the world's wealthiest nation and by their nods give the stop or go sign to enterprises from Bonn to Bangkok. They wield vast powers???and yet must correctly size up situations around the world and reckon on economic and social changes bigger than their own power to control. They cannot sit still or their strength diminishes; but when they move, they must be nimble as well as sure...
Free people of sovereign States establishing a government of limited powers?...
There were no blatant, undignified press stories of the revolt. In Madrid not a single paper dared to mention it at all until Don Miguel was ready with his own version. Suddenly members of the so- called National Assembly?which has no parliamentary powers???heard the click of the Dictator's silver spurs and beheld him mounting the Tribune in full regalia. They saw a beefy, self-indulgent man, but withal keen-eyed and striking despite his paunch...