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There are, in all, eight free and sovereign nations, 65 colonies, protectorates and trust territories (the smallest of them: Pitcairn Island, two square miles in the Pacific; the largest, Tanganyika, 362,688 square miles in East Africa). All are bound together into one geopolitical phenomenon called the Commonwealth...
...live the old Spartan life: they sleep on boards covered only by a thin mattress, eat cold gag (cold meat), crug and flab (bread & butter), kiff (tea), slosh (boiled rice) and taff (potatoes). Their top Grecian still has the privilege of delivering a special address to each new British sovereign, and each year the whole school marches to the residence of the Lord Mayor to receive for each boy a brand-new shilling and for each Grecian a guinea...
...lifetime George V's character lay hidden behind a formidable beard and the equally protective barrier of royal protocol. In his new biography, Harold Nicolson looks behind beard and protocol to reveal a sovereign who took an active part in the making of history and a man who worked at the job of being King with all the conscientiousness his grandmama could have wished. Nicolson's biography is an authorized one, and his charter has restricted him to the official side of the King's life. But his success in extracting pure gold from the dull metal...
...Winston Churchill, the Briton most admired by Americans, who brewed the Great Tempest. His demand for a sovereign conference of the world's leading powers (TIME, May 18) had fired his countrymen's imaginations, and in domestic terms at least, it was well timed to appeal to coronation-time sentiments about a second Elizabethan Age. Behind well-phrased compliments, Churchill had adroitly sniped at the U.S., berated the truce negotiators for dillydallying, taunted Washington for its unwillingness to meet the Russians face to face. He was on popular ground and he knew it, for Britons...
Republic 15. In effect, World War II added half a dozen sovereign nations, from Lithuania to Albania, to the roster of suppressed nationalities. But the worst fate of all befell the three Baltic Republics: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. They were "accepted into the U.S.S.R." as Republics...