Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward Algernon Fitzroy the abdication message of Edward VIII (TIME, Dec. 21). The first message from new King George VI asked Parliament to make "permanent provision for the purpose of facilitating the uninter rupted exercise of the royal authority" in case of "any incapacity which might over take the Sovereign...
...some this looked as though the Prime Minister had got the King to hatch a scheme which might enable the Government to declare the Sovereign "incapacitated" should he seem about to do anything unconstitutional, but this will depend on how the measure is drafted as a bill, and His Majesty last week was clearly providing also for the case of his own sudden death...
Such death would make 10-year-old Princess Elizabeth the Sovereign, and last week her father asked Parliament to enact a Regency Bill under which, in case of "the demise of the Crown," the next member of the Royal Family in line for the Throne, "excluding minors" (i.e., excepting Princess Elizabeth, 10, and her sister Princess Margaret Rose, 6), should automatically become the Regent. This would mean that the death of King George would make his brother the Duke of Gloucester the sole Regent. This was a great surprise, for it had been expected that strong-minded Queen Elizabeth...
...More than cheap power is at stake; a new element of democratic decency can be introduced into public life. The sovereign government is under obligation not to make capricious or arbitrary use of its power but to act with restraint and fairness and without a spirit of retaliation. But what if the power companies reject such an approach? . . . Public authorities should not give up any powers of compulsion until a reasonable process of solution has been worked out and well established. . . . But the utilities have a right to know what it is that is asked of them and what...
...world had to be kept unsatisfied day after agonizing day if good great Mr. Baldwin was to wear down and tame his passionate and obstinate King Emperor. In his own time, and it seemed an outrageously long time, Mr. Baldwin, who is 69, last week entirely tamed a Sovereign of 42, recalling him to that state of dignity (see p. 15) minus which a King Emperor is not worth to Great Britain the millions per year he costs, and securing his abdication...