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Leopold III, King of the Belgians, suddenly recovered his health. From Salzburg he sent word that he was coming home. Since Socialist Premier Achille Van Acker's Government had virtually barred the sovereign's return (TIME, May 21), Leopold's decision plunged the nation into a constitutional crisis...
Conservative Credo. Against the Labor Party's program, which calls for nationalization of basic industry, Churchill set his own Conservative credo. "I stand for sovereign freedom of the individual, within laws which freely elected Parliaments have freely passed. I stand for the rights of the ordinary man to say what he thinks of the Government of the day, however powerful, and to turn them out neck and crop if he thinks he can better his temper or his home thereby. . . ." Churchill found few differences between the Conservative and Liberal Parties ("There is scarcely a Liberal sentiment which animated...
...Veto. In some important respects, most of the small states were willing to delegate to the central organization more sovereign power than the large nations would give up. The U.S. and Russia were the only two nations which conceivably could fight the rest of the world even for a time, and these two relied for their security more upon their own armed might than upon collective action. This disparity was the origin of "the Yalta agreement on Security Council voting procedures," which for three weeks had been the key San Francisco issue...
...news of the sovereign Argentine Government's recent behavior, see LATIN AMERICA...
...Assembly was coming out of San Francisco with its slight power only slightly increased. The principle of equality of sovereign nations was still recognized in name only...