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...Britain is excluded, he speculated, Europe is likely to evolve in the direction envisioned by de Gaulle. Since 1946, the General has looked forward to a grouping of sovereign states, including Eastern satellites, that will play an independent role between the United States and the Soviet Union...
...which once controlled India's northwest frontier province of Kashmir, exacted a token annual tribute of two Kashmiri shawls and three handkerchiefs from the maharajah. Never since has the price of peace been as small. In the years after independence in 1947 split the Indian subcontinent into the sovereign states of India and Pakistan, the two nations have paid with strife and bloodshed to establish their conflicting claims over the disputed region. Last week, after 15 years of bitter wrangling, Indian and Pakistani delegates finally met in the Pakistan capital of Rawalpindi to seek a solution to the Kashmir...
John welcomed more rulers (32) than any other Pope, and received some historic papal guests: the first Greek Orthodox sovereign to visit the Pope since the days of the last Byzantine emperor, the first Archbishop of Canterbury since the 14th century, the first chief prelate of the U.S. Episcopal Church, the first Moderator of the Scottish Kirk, the first Shinto high priest. When Jacqueline Kennedy came to visit, John asked his secretary how to address her. Replied the secretary: ' 'Mrs. Kennedy,' or just 'Madame.' since she is of French origin and has lived in France." Waiting in his private library...
Early this year, possibly to relax from the Algerian crisis and other serious matters, Charles de Gaulle gave Monaco six months to reform its tax laws or lose its special status (though Monaco is theoretically sovereign, it exists as a privileged protectorate of France, free of customs duties). When the ultimatum expired fortnight ago, Paris sent customs agents to set up barriers at the border that Novelist Colette once described as the frontier of flowers. Mostly, the revenuers darted about in mobile vans and on motorcycles, making nuisances of themselves, which was the idea. "Berlin has its wall of shame...
Cheers to Governor Ross Barnett for his show of guts by standing up for his convictions, states' rights and the will of the people of the sovereign state of Mississippi. If there were more people like him in high positions in the Federal Government, would we have to worry about the "Cuban thorn" or similar situations...