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...shall not blame America alone for present tensions and I shall criticize Russia when I think Russia is wrong. But I do assert that a great part of our conflict with Russia is the normal conflict between two strong and sovereign nations and can be solved in normal ways...
Many an echo of these lavish reports came back to Lilibet, and her sense of importance was in no way diminished by a kindly, doting old Sovereign whom she called "Grandpapa England." "They're cheering for you, you know," George V explained to her one day as he held her in his arms on the Palace balcony. Lilibet smiled radiantly. Later she was caught testing her royal prerogative by making a playmate bow low in homage...
...Pinkle-Ponkle. As with any potential heir to the throne, Elizabeth's formal education was the constitutional concern not only of the reigning sovereign but of the Cabinet. It was soon decided that no school would match Princess Elizabeth's requirements. So every day from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with an hour off for lunch, she studied history, grammar, literature and arithmetic with her Scottish governess "Crawfie" (Miss Marion Crawford...
...Government as the sovereign, they said, stands beyond the jurisdiction of the Norris-LaGuardia Act. The Act only pertains to "persons" involved in labor disputes, and the sovereign is not "persons." Was it the intent of Congress, which wrote the Act, that the Act should not apply to Government? Union lawyers argued that if Congress intended to exclude the Government from the Act it would have said so. Congressman James Beck had argued at the time that Congress should have said so. Vinson impatiently, almost angrily, brushed aside that argument. "We do not accept his [Beck's] views...
...legal position, looked at from the same point of view, is equally impregnable. As one sovereign government to another, Greece would ask of the United States money with which to bolster up her ramshackle economy, civilian experts to aid her in reconstructing her war-torn country--and military experts and materiel to beef up her army of over 100,000 men. By so doing, the United States would take up where Britain left off--aiding the present Greek government to root out and destroy the EAM forces in the north and to supply the Greek and Turkish governments with...