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...name of the game is constitutional monarchy. By its unwritten rules, Britain's sovereign loyally refrains from controversial statements, especially when dealing with her outer domains, for whom she is the symbol of unity with Britain itself. Not so confined is Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who regularly sparks debates over the nation's "cuppas" by his talent for what he calls dontopedalogy-opening his mouth and putting his foot in it. Last week Philip kicked up a storm in kingdom and Commonwealth as well...
...confession does not attempt to redefine such traditional doctrines as the Trinity, but it does give a contemporary statement of what the church believes about Jesus of Nazareth (in him, "true humanity was realized once for all"), Christ as savior and judge of all men, and God's sovereign love...
...feeling, obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs." If Peel had such low regard for public opinion, it is easy to imagine how he would have felt about "world opinion." He would have denied that any such thing existed, or, if it did exist, that it had any business interfering with the sovereign actions of the British Empire...
...that is a new policy, it would come as a surprise to every American statesman, going back to James Monroe. For at its basis lies the sovereign right, defended by Americans of all decades of self-protection. It was perhaps best'expressed by a great Secretary of State, Elihu Root, who wrote in 1914: "it is well understood that the exercise' of the right of self-protection may, and frequently does, extend in its effect beyond the limits of the territorial jurisdiction the state exercising it ... [It is] the right of every sovereign state to protect itself...
...world preoccupied with newer conflicts, the sound and fury serves as an apt reminder that one older problem remains unsolved. Two decades after World War II, Germany is still divided. Its onetime capital languishes as an occupied enclave. Whatever the legalisms involved, it seemed somehow strange that a sovereign West Germany actually had to ask the U.S., Great Britain and France for permission for its legislature to sit in West Berlin...