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Citation: "Citizen of a land known of old, newly reborn in our own day as a sovereign state, product of its schools and of the American University in Beirut . . . trained in mathematics, physics and philosophy, scholar and teacher, diplomat and international figure, the wide sweep of your learning, the scope of your perspective and the strategic location of your nation have given you remarkable opportunity for the sympathetic interpretation of the Near East to the West and of the U.S. to Western Asia...
...Ever since the reign of George III, Britain's sovereign has surrendered most of the crown revenue to Parliament, which in turn, acting somewhat like an insurance company, gives some of it back in the form of specific annuities to members of the royal family. The system was designed largely to prevent an impulsive monarch from throwing away his substance wholesale. Actually, what the crown surrenders in revenues is twice what it gets back in allowances. Once in control of the money, the House of Commons has been traditionally reluctant to part with it. After a rowdy argument...
...people. A German settlement, the West said, can only be worked out if there is a "genuinely representative all-German government, formed as a result of free elections and able to participate in full freedom in the discussion of a peace treaty." A united Germany must be free and sovereign, safe from outside interference, and secure from any domestic putsch. Above all, the West insisted, Germany must have "the basic right of a free and equal nation to associate with other nations," e.g., in the European Defense Community (E.D.C.). To deny this right, as Russia did, would mean "permanent shackles...
...major question that education must face, in short, is God, for "if God is the sovereign fact of life, God is the sovereign fact for education . . . Education cannot live under any hermetic seal, but only under the countersign of man's nature and destiny. If God is, education must live under the acknowledgment...
...morning this week General Matthew B. Ridgway ceased to be allied proconsul over defeated Japan. By the terms of the peace treaty, the Japanese were a sovereign people again (see below). Three hours later came more news about Matt Ridgway: he would soon be replaced as commander of U.N. forces in Korea. The reason: President Truman had chosen him to succeed General Eisenhower at SHAPE. The change will be effective approximately June 1, the day Ike doffs his uniform to seek the presidency...