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...express the deep and lively sense of gratitude which we and all your peoples feel to you and to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh for all the help and inspiration we receive in our daily lives and which spreads with ever-growing strength throughout the British realm and the Commonwealth and Empire...
...flounder in the realm of truisms and vague calls to action. It is in specific articles that the justification for the aims of i.e. must be sought. It is by analyzing a substantial group that we may determine whether Mr. Raditsa has done more than put together a miscellaneous assortment of writings, whether he has in fact created an organ which will express a distinct and significant element of thought at the University. Two issues do not provide sufficient material to form any judgment. Nevertheless even in the current issue the articles forcibly direct our attention to the problem...
...COURTS The history of the English constitution is largely one of struggle toward an independent, qualified judiciary (in the Magna Carta, King John covenanted that "we will appoint as justices . . . only such as know the law of the realm and mean to observe it well"). The men who shaped the governments of the U.S. and its states were acutely conscious of the importance of a judiciary free to act without fear or favor toward the executive and legislative branches. In the post-revolutionary period nearly all judges-state as well as federal-were named by appointment and got life tenure...
Pakistan (pop. 76 millions) decided last week to turn itself from a dominion into an independent republic inside the British Commonwealth. Like its neighbor India, Pakistan will recognize Queen Elizabeth not as sovereign of the realm but as "head of the Commonwealth." The Crown-appointed Governor General, 59-year-old Ghulam Mohammed, is expected to become chief of state with full powers in name as well as in fact...
...Freudian View. Through most of the Christian era, the healing of the mind was considered part of the realm of the soul. The Enlightenment abolished the soul. Its p'ace was taken, in the minds of millions, by reason, which stood atop a quaking pile of instincts...