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King George VI quietly, unofficially turned 50, marked the day by 1) a family luncheon party, 2) a dinner for 20 guests, 3) a dance for 100. Britain's sovereign will not have his official 50th birthday for six months. The reason: English weather smiles more happily on June birthday celebrations...
Iran stood on its dignity as a full-fledged member of UNO. But its intrinsic weakness was that of many small states, sovereign in name only, which became pawns of the great powers. It happened that Iran had a ruler whose amiable, feckless personality symbolized perfectly the political vacuum his once-great country had become...
...Four sovereign states charged the accused with conspiring to seize power in their own sovereign state...
...Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria hotel, some 2,000 foreign traders last week were told a fact of postwar life that old China hands already knew. The teller was Clarence Edward Gauss, ex-ambassador to China. Said Mr. Gauss: "China has emerged from the war a fully sovereign state. The vexatious issues relating to special foreign privileges existing in China under the old 'unequal' treaties having been swept away, we must enter upon our postwar trade relations on a new basis...
...long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable...