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...royal federation is to be much looser than Nasser's republic. The two monarchs are to keep their individual thrones and sovereign titles. The federation, to be organized within 90 days, is to have one flag, one army, one foreign policy, one foreign service. Both nations will keep their own legislatures. A combined federal legislature will be set up to deal with federal policies, in which Jordan and Iraq will have equal representation. It will sit half the time in Baghdad, half the time in Amman. Though Feisal is designated head of state, "the question of the head...
...Russian life and temperament. To historians, it is a bomb of a book that shattered the complacent pane through which 19th century Europe surveyed the weather of the soul. To the religious, it is a prophecy of the apocalypse that has been visited upon the 20th century, and a sovereign medicine to the malady of unbelief. But to Hollywood, it makes none of these points. What Dostoevsky was really trying to express, according to this picture, is a simple, eternal verity: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl...
...pseudoermine capes will benefit from an increased and more fashion-conscious clientele. The only potential danger involved is that the Queen someday might decide to pack the upper chamber with peeresses to swing votes vital to her sex. But this threat seems negligible, and the first action the sovereign might take is to appoint Princess Margaret Lady Chancellor...
Back in 1946, in a historic meeting at The Hague, the leaders of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg committed their nations to a far-reaching experiment in cooperation and trust among Europe's sovereign states-an economic union that obliterated economic borders to let goods, capital and labor flow as freely as they do across U.S. state lines...
...cold afternoon in February 1945, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky buzzed into Bucharest, bustled over to the palace of 24-year-old King Michael and banged out a desk-thumping ultimatum: fire the non-Communist government, install a pro-Communist regime-or sovereign Rumania would cease to exist. With Soviet troops in control of the country and no hope of help from Britain or the U.S., young Michael capitulated. The Kremlin's choice as Premier: Plowman Groza. A year later Groza helped the Communists undo the promises of Yalta for free elections by arranging an elaborately rigged election which...