Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week five black-robed judges (three of them appointed by Prime Minister Malan) unanimously said no. Malan's action was "null and void." Said Chief Justice Albert van de Sandt Centlivres: "To say that the Union of South Africa is not a sovereign state simply because Parliament hasn't the power to amend the Constitution is to state a manifest absurdity . . . It would be surprising . . . to be told that the great and powerful country, the United States, is not sovereign and independent because its Congress cannot pass any law it pleases...
...Communist Party. Wrote Justice Jackson for the majority (in a 6-2 decision): "That aliens may remain vulnerable to expulsion after long residence is a practice that bristles with severity. But it is a weapon of defense and reprisal confirmed by international law as a power inherent in every sovereign state." Dissenting: Black and Douglas...
...from the bureau's coverage any unnecessary duplication of the thousands of words already pouring across the Atlantic to the U.S. press. He was aiming at a clear, detailed picture of the news as it happened and its effects on the British people when they learned of their sovereign's death. Friday evening the copy began to flow to TIME'S New York cable room. By 4 a.m. Saturday, the London staff had cleared its complete file and was standing by for late developments and checking cables from...
...feats of derring-do. He made ordinariness shine. Exhausting himself by faithful performance of the tedious ceremonial rounds, exemplifying in his family life a warm blending of affection and rectitude, he gave his people a standard of conduct to rally to. Winston Churchill, paying a last tribute to his sovereign friend, acclaimed a King "so strong in his devotion to the enduring honor of our country, so self-restrained in his judgments of men and affairs; so uplifted above the clash of party politics yet so attentive to them, so wise and shrewd in judging between what matters and what...
...fast as she likes in a car which needs no license number. She can tell her sister Margaret when she can marry, and will surely advise her on whom to marry. She can confer Britain's highest civilian decoration, the Order of Merit-one honor in which the Sovereign retains freedom of choice...