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...High Commissioner is a diplomatic officer, represents Britain when she deals with her dominion as a colleague. The Governor General is an alter ego of the King, represents Britain when she deals with her dominion as a sovereign...
...under Henry VIII. Henry, wrote Lord Campbell, "when he wished to throw off the authority of the Pope, thinking that as long as the name of St. Thomas should remain in the calendar men would be stimulated by his example to brave the ecclesiastical authority of the Sovereign, instructed his Attorney General to file a quo warranto information against him [Thomas a Becket" for usurping the office of a Saint. . . ." Verdict: guilty of rebellion and treason...
...continent of Europe last week, save Sweden's Gustaf, there was only one King who could call his crown his own. This was Boris III of Bulgaria. And among Europe's hurrying traders in sovereignty, this sovereign's was perhaps the most ticklish predicament of all, his footwork perhaps the neatest...
France, though a beaten State, still regards itself as sovereign, whether or not any other nation does. The Government at Vichy promulgates laws, regulates commerce, commands the lives of 20,000,000 citizens in unoccupied France and the hopes of 20,000,000 others in the occupied zone. Vichy also sends diplomatic envoys to foreign sovereign States. In interim diplomatic relations with Germany, France has definite bargaining points which, though they might mean suicide for France, might also mean serious checks and stumbles to Germany. Last week sovereign France used these points to advantage in her first post-armistice crisis...
This week the sovereign State of Missouri will set aside a day to honor a plump, loquacious spinster, Mary Margaret McBride, ex-citizen of Paris, Mo. Miss McBride, whose previous citations include an award from the Wall Paper Institute, has distinguished herself throughout the land as the most-listened-to female heart-to-hearter. Since 1934, under her own name and the pseudonym Martha Deane, she has babbled furiously about friends, featherbeds, food, life in Missouri, New York and Europe. Until a couple of months ago, she was heard over both CBS and the MBS station WOR, serving Columbia...