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...Supreme Being, the eternal and infinite Spirit, Creator and Sovereign of the universe. - Webster's International Dictionary...
...delegates' lounge at U.N. headquarters at Lake Success, where representatives of the world's sovereign nations gather over Martinis or orange juice, was a handy place for a casual meeting. There, one day last February, the U.S.'s lanky negotiator, Philip Jessup, fell into conversation with Russia's barrel-chested Yakov Malik. From that conversation, the U.S. learned last week, came the series of talks which brought the first break in the cold war in months: the Russians were prepared to abandon the blockade of Berlin. The end of the Berlin airlift, a historic employment...
...Attlee to fret over a problem that might rudely upset the Commonwealth's finely adjusted balances. The problem was posed by the fact that India, now a free dominion within the Commonwealth, had declared her intention of severing her connection with the Crown; she would become an "independent sovereign republic" next August...
Jawaharlal Nehru. Their talk, as one of them put it, often bordered on theological metaphysics. Finally, a satisfactory formula was found. It provided that India would indeed be an independent sovereign republic, but that she would nevertheless accept "the King as the symbol of the free association of [the Commonwealth's] independent member nations...
...white and orange to the peak of the flagpole and in a ringing voice hurled a challenge at his British overlords: "Supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe ... Ireland strikes in full confidence of victory . . . We hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State...