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...such nimble marriages, the Churchills became gentry, landed but impoverished. The clan's private golden age began in the mid-17th century with Sir Winston Churchill, a loyal colonel in the forces of Charles I, whose budding career was clipped off in 1649 as neatly as his sovereign's head. But with the agility of his 20th century namesake, he snatched up the pen as quickly as he dropped the sword, wrote Divi Britannici, a monarchical history of England. In its lament for the plight of the Cromwellian realm, one hears the first rumblings of the famed Churchillian...
...though to say so may be a worse heresy than anything Joan was tried for-as a dramatic creation, Shaw's character in large measure fails. As a dialectical creation, his Joan is superb, just as the massively symbolic, impartially delineated conflict between Joan and the church, the sovereign self and the sovereign institution, inner light and outer law. is magnificently projected. But Shaw did not solve his problem of making Joan personally real by making her slangily realistic and outwardly much like other people. Her reality lay in how she differed from them; and Actress McKenna, by eschewing...
...Titular Sovereign." For their country's exclusion from the Suez conference, Panamanians are angry at the U.S. rather than Britain. They are convinced that Secretary of State Dulles vetoed Panama because he wanted to keep from getting the Panama Canal even remotely mixed up with the Suez crisis. Panamanians point out that their country is the "titular sovereign" in the Canal Zone...
...owned and operated by the U.S. Government under a 1903 bilateral treaty in which Panama granted the U.S. "use, occupation and control" of the ten-mile-wide Canal Zone "in perpetuity," plus "all the rights, power and authority . . . which the U.S. would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory...
Lawyer's Stand. Calm, bulky and phlegmatic, Lawyer Dulles took the position that Egypt as a sovereign nation had a legal right to nationalize the Canal Company-an Egyptian entity which he likened to a public utility with a government charter-so long as Egypt paid due compensation. But he also held that Nasser, in seizing the canal itself, had violated solemn treaties.* In the end, the Big Three duly called a conference of 24 nations "deeply concerned with use of the canal"* to meet in London Aug. 16. At Dulles' insistence, those invited included not only Egypt...