Word: sovereign
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...object of his tribute he defined as more than "a mechanical or technical or abstract formula", or simply a balanced system of decentralized power. According to Rockefeller the federal idea is less a system than a process by which centers of "sovereign power, energy and creativity" (state governments) cooperate with the national government for the general good...
...Year's address to the nation last week, President Charles de Gaulle once again promised peace in Algeria. Within the year, he hinted, France would be cooperating with "a sovereign and independent Algerian state...
...liturgy." The Pope encouraged the use of good popular hymns in the vernacular at non-solemn liturgical functions. But Latin, he added, "is permanently connected with the sacred melodies of the Church of Rome, and is a clear and splendid symbol of unity . . . It must continue to maintain its sovereign position to which it has every right...
Welcomed home by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Poet Laureate John Masefield's twelve-line ode, "On the Return of Our Gracious Sovereign from Africa,"* Queen Elizabeth II returned to England last week from her four-week, 7,000-mile visit to four West African countries. With her the Queen brought some six tons of luggage and gifts, including a baby crocodile, reportedly with divine powers, for Prince Andrew. Behind her she had left a residue of good feeling toward the Crown and Commonwealth-as well as her huband, Prince Philip, who was attending the Tanganyikan independence ceremonies. (Perhaps...
...East German authorities.' It would be more pleasant to hear 'Government of the German Democratic Republic.' " President Kennedy would not give him the pleasure of hearing the East Germans referred to as a nation. "The reason we have been reluctant to recognize East Germany as a sovereign power is that we do not recognize the division of Germany...