Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clearly the Committee of Liberation is not yet a de facto, sovereign, unified power. Within the French Empire there now exist two armies responsible to two different commanders who are not responsible to one war minister. In terms of the hopes of a few days ago, this is a turning back of the French political clock. And hollow sound the recent words of De Gaulle and Giraud: 'Frenchmen, the unity you have been waiting for has been achieved...
...compromise has eased tension, but it has not meant victory for either party. De Gaulle, who came here with the intention of creating a strong, central, sovereign power, now finds that the power is split, that his plans for broad, sweeping reforms are reduced. For General Giraud, also, the compromise cannot be satisfying. It places him in the embarrassing position of being Commander in Chief by virtue of Allied intervention...
Conquering Allied troops heard that the Bey of Tunis, hawk-nosed, pouchy-eyed Sidi Mohammed Al Mounsaf, had fled to Europe with his Axis friends. But a British lieutenant found the sovereign in a bomb proof cave near his palace. Later, when a British major general called to pay his respects, the Bey had out his bodyguard, his band, and his 25 wives. The Bey himself, in grey suit and red tarboosh, complained that bombs broke the glass in his blue, bougainvillaea-covered palace near Tunis. The general apologized...
Restoration with Restrictions. Haile Selassie is the nominal sovereign of liberated Ethiopia. The actual chores of governing are handled (through agreement) by British civilian and military commissions...
Although it has been argued that the government is sovereign and cannot set up any body on a par with itself, the fact remains that governmental units are faced with important problems of human and industrial relations. Grievances and mismanagement will crop up. The question arises: "What is the function of a union in this situation," and the answer is important both for the present emergency in the mines and future problems in government operated and controlled enterprises...