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...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...
...Whereas," he cried, "it hath pleased Almighty God to call to His Mercy our late sovereign lord, King George VI, of blessed and glorious memory, by whose decease the Crown is solely and rightfully come to the high and mighty Princess, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, we therefore Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this realm . . . do now hereby with one voice and consent of tongue and heart publish and proclaim the high and mighty Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary is now . . . become Queen Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, Queen of this realm and all her other realms and territories, head...
...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...