Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skilled diplomats can no longer save Britain from frightening collisions. It has been booted ignominiously from Iran, set upon in Egypt, ambushed in Malaya, even sniped at by Argentina. Burma has left the Commonwealth, Ceylon is thinking of leaving. Six of the great overseas Dominions are now as sovereign as Britain itself, legally bound to the mother island only by the thread of mutual allegiance to the Crown. India, though a Dominion, does not even recognize the Crown. Except for short periods, Britain has been unable to pay its way since 1918. At an alarming rate, its once-rich holdings...
...departed Vishinsky and a minor defeat for the U.S., which is anxious to include the other nine (Italy, Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Austria, Ceylon, Nepal, Jordan and Libya), but resents Russia's exclusion of South Korea and its inclusion of satellite Outer Mongolia, which is no more a sovereign nation than South Dakota. Addition of the other satellite countries (Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and Albania) would also relatively strengthen the voting position of the Soviet bloc. On any issue requiring two-thirds majority, every vote counts...
Alone among the major dominions of the British Empire, Canada has never had one of her own citizens as sovereign representative of the Crown; since confederation in 1867, the post of Governor General has been held by 17 successive British peers. Many older Canadians felt that this was as it should be, that the exercise of the King's constitutional functions by a distinguished Briton was a strong link in the Empire...
John was ready to suggest another reward. Considering Picasso's reputation with British artists and critics, "would it not be a gracious and timely gesture on the part of the Royal Academy if, with the consent of the Sovereign Señor Picasso were invited to accept Honorary Membership of that historic body...
...Knights of Malta. It specializes in modern medical relief in the manner of the Red Cross and operates a fleet of Italy-based ambulance planes; yet two of its three categories of membership are traditionally open only to the nobility. Moreover, the order is recognized as a sovereign state (with no territory, but with diplomatic representatives) by the Vatican and 13 countries...