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...Japan becomes a fully sovereign nation with power to rearm or develop its economy as it pleases...
Last week, after 17 years as sovereign, Leopold III, King of the Belgians, did what he could to make amends and restore harmony among his people. Before a distinguished group of 250 in the Royal Palace's white-and-gold throne room in Brussels, the stern, still handsome and young-looking (at 50) monarch relinquished his right to reign to his 2O-year-old son Baudouin. "It is with pride," Leopold told the boy, "that I transmit to you the noble and heavy mission of henceforth bearing the crown * of a Belgium which has remained, despite the most terrible...
...Japan becomes a fully sovereign nation with authority to rearm or develop its economy as it pleases...
...Conor, who was once a governor himself, slapped a subpoena on the governor, ordering him to show up in Washington this week. Warren challenged the committee's power to remove him from Florida and thus "restrain me from the discharge of my responsibilities as chief executive of a sovereign state." He appealed for advice to South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes, onetime Supreme Court Justice, and got some support. The committee was being "overzealous," Jimmy Byrnes thought. To take personal jurisdiction over a governor "threatens the existence of our form of government...
...King Frederik of Denmark, "strongest monarch in history" [TIME, May 21]: this claim by his onetime physical instructor, in behalf of the Danish sovereign, might reasonably be disputed by a Thracian peasant, C. Julius Maximinus...