Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kings dined informally at Buckingham Palace last week, each the constitutional sovereign of a democratic country, yet utterly different in status from one another. The status of England's King is such that for him to go abroad and negotiate with a foreign state would automatically create a "Constitutional Crisis," with alarmed British politicians Hell-bent for abdication. The status of the King of the Belgians is such that last week brown-haired young Leopold III, unaccompanied by any of the Belgian Cabinet, arrived in London to negotiate in person with the British Government vital issues as to Belgium...
Mussolini's small-statured sovereign Vittorio Emanuele III canceled at Rome last week the Italian delegation headed by Crown Prince Umberto which was to have represented His Majesty at the British Coronation. Reason: Vittorio Emanuele III and his subjects, including Il Duce, are united in considering His Majesty not only King of Italy but also Emperor of Ethiopia, united too in refusing to stomach what they call the "British insult" de livered when George VI invited Haile Selassie to send a native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure...
...Because it is well known that a dose of fresh human blood is a sovereign specific against consumption, an old tea- house keeper goes to an execution, gets a roll saturated in blood for his dying son. But the son dies; the two mothers meet in the crowded graveyard, find their sons are lying next each other...
...irate Scotsmen, Welshmen and Irishmen occasionally point out, ''There are no such persons in existence as the King and Queen of England"-i.e., they are King and Queen of the United Kingdom. The last Sovereign of England was Queen Elizabeth, who died...
...supreme court of the British Commonwealth of Nations is in London and is called the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The entire Privy Council consists of some 300 British statesmen in all by parts their of the sovereign globe who with the have rank been of "P. C." honored (Privy Councilor). Thus there is a broad Commonwealth flavor about the Judicial Committee. It smacks faintly of Union Jacks on which the sun never sets, and yet is definitely Mother Country. Last week in an historic session the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held to be null and void...