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Word: sovereignity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clark dispatched a letter to North Korea's Kim II Sung and Red China's Peng Teh-huai. asking for resumed truce talks "in an earnest endeavor to achieve an early armistice." The U.N. Command is a military command, he said, and it does not control the sovereign South Korean government. By agreement, it is supposed to control the ROK armed forces; therefore, the Rhee government broke an agreement when ROK soldiers, acting on their government's secret instructions, aided and abetted the escape of 25,000 North Korean prisoners. But, Clark insisted, "the recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRUCE TALKS: With or Without | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...centuries of jurisdictional thrust and parry have reduced the crown's prerogatives. Elizabeth II, though ostensibly sovereign over everything and everyone British, may not publicly express any political sentiment, nor refuse to sign any bill of Parliament, even though it should require the abolition of monarchy. Yet what the crown has given up in authority, it has gained in public affection. Said Sir Winston Churchill last week: "A great battle is lost; Parliament turns out the government. A great battle is won; crowds cheer the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Crowning Glory | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...Queen knelt at the altar, kissed the Holy Bible and made her solemn oath: "The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God." With a golden pen she signed a copy of the oath, the only formal contract between Sovereign and subjects. The Moderator of the Church of Scotland presented her with the Bible. "[It] is the most valuable thing that this world affords. Here is wisdom; this is the royal law; these are the lively oracles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Your Undoubted Queen | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...Archbishop laid in her hands the Sovereign's Sword-to "do justice, stop the growth of iniquity, protect the holy Church of God . . . restore the things that are gone to decay, maintain the things that are restored, punish and reform what is amiss, and confirm what is in good order." The Queen took the Sword, advanced with it to the altar and offered it to God. Turning, she stole a glance at the royal gallery, where her 4-year-old son Prince Charles, in a white silk suit, watched enraptured. She paused and returned to the chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Your Undoubted Queen | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Geoffrey, Archbishop of Canterbury, was first to kneel at her feet. He placed his hands between his Queen's and spoke for the Established Church: "I will be faithful and true, and faith and truth will bear unto you, our Sovereign Lady . . . Defender of the Faith." Next came Philip, her husband, first peer of the realm. "I, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, do become your liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship: and faith and truth I will bear unto you, to live and die against all manner of folks. So help me God." The Duke touched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Your Undoubted Queen | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

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