Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about. On deck Mr. Chamberlain nearly did a split and the long lean Foreign Secretary got a buffeting (see cut). The diplomatic traveling companions had an easier trip back two days later, the day the King signed his parchment. It was, of course, the Prime Minister who "advised" the Sovereign to demobilize the Fleet. His Majesty did so presumably because Mr. Chamberlain was satisfied, after talking in Paris with Premier Edouard Daladier (see p. 21), that this European emergency had ended. Officially this week, H. M.'s Government announced that Chamberlain & Halifax "plan" to visit Benito Mussolini in January...
Since the Houses along the river have been built, the University has virtually a Maginot line of defense against invaders of sovereign Cambridge territory...
King Winter has seized the diadem. He now reigns supreme in all his white, icy glory. But with all due respect to the sovereign, some of his actions are proving most perilous to his reverent subjects in the University...
...region as the representative of a Belgian association of traders. In a few years Stanley had so expanded the association's influence through trading posts and treaty alliances with petty native chiefs that by 1885 the world powers at Berlin agreed to recognize the Congo as a sovereign, free State, under control of the trading company. Leopold's next step, as head of the company, was to have himself declared the sovereign...
Finally the Premier gave Communist and other propaganda agents in France this warning: "Hitlerian Germany, Fascist Italy and Communist Russia forbid democratic propaganda in their lands. It is their right as sovereign States. The French Republic, whose patience has perhaps been too easygoing, will henceforth watch and render impossible any acts that arise outside of the country's own heart...