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...Italian politics are serious. Guiliano, the Sicilian baudit, still maintains a sovereign state around Palermo against all efforts of the local constabulary. He is constantly in the news: at one point when the police commissioner put up a large reward for Guiliano's capture, Guiliano retorted by putting up a reward for the capture of the police commissioner. He has also offered to cedo Sicily to the U. S., but so far Washington hasn't taken...
White Horse. Within 24 hours, Vishinsky broke the splendid spell. At the steering committee's first meeting, he bitingly scorned a proposal to establish a modest 300-man guard for U.N. "I can see Mr. Lie on a white horse leading his forces against the forces of a sovereign nation, carrying a blue flag on which are the words 'United Nations.' Let us be reasonable, gentlemen . . ." The crowded committee room resounded with politely appreciative laughter...
...Lord, I give him into Thy hand, as a captain putteth a sword into the hand of his sovereign, wherewith to lay waste his enemies. May he be a two-edged weapon in Thy hand and a spear coming out of Thy mouth, to destroy, and overcome, and pass over; and may the enemies of Thy Church fall down before him, and be as dung to fat the land...
Moorish King. Jordan's Abdullah arrived at La Coruña, a few miles down the coast from El Ferrol, before the Americans left. Disgruntled because his British masters had put him aboard an ordinary passenger steamer, the Highland Brigade, the Hashimite sovereign had his pride restored when Host Franco stopped the British steamer in the harbor and provided a Spanish naval launch for his Arab guest to come ashore in regal style...
...fear of Russia, fear (in some cases) of a resurgent Germany, fear of economic collapse. They also shared a vague pride in being citizens of what Churchill calls the famous continent, Europe. The minor squabbles between British Laborites and Tories at the conference showed clearly that the representatives of sovereign nations could act not as members of a British (or French or Belgian) bloc, but as Europeans with individual convictions...