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...region as the representative of a Belgian association of traders. In a few years Stanley had so expanded the association's influence through trading posts and treaty alliances with petty native chiefs that by 1885 the world powers at Berlin agreed to recognize the Congo as a sovereign, free State, under control of the trading company. Leopold's next step, as head of the company, was to have himself declared the sovereign...
Finally the Premier gave Communist and other propaganda agents in France this warning: "Hitlerian Germany, Fascist Italy and Communist Russia forbid democratic propaganda in their lands. It is their right as sovereign States. The French Republic, whose patience has perhaps been too easygoing, will henceforth watch and render impossible any acts that arise outside of the country's own heart...
...There are 18 industrial, railroad and public utility corporations in the U.S. with assets of more than one billion dollars each. There are twelve financial corporations in the same class....In each of 22 sovereign States of this Federal Union, according to the World Almanac for 1938, the assessed valuation on real property was less than one billion dollars....In each of 16 States the total valuation of all property subject to general property tax was less than one billion dollars....The assets of each of those giant corporations are subject to authoritarian control by the corporate managers while...
...going to cost ONE POUND, more or less (consult Bursar's office for current rate of exchange), to change a course. Any course. Now for example, if you want to change from INDIC PHILOLOGY to HISTORY ONE, it is going to cost you a little under ONE SOVEREIGN...
...heroic King Albert had faced the Germans alone, suddenly deserted by the Great Powers as was Czechoslovakia this week, even the redoubtable Belgian Sovereign might have shown less courage, resourcefulness and firmness than did President Eduard Benes last week. Astonished Prague learned on Wednesday evening from press wires that Neville Chamberlain would fly on Thursday morning to Berchtesgaden, bitterly observed that the violent Sudeten German riots which broke out on Monday night, directly after Hitler's Nürnberg speech, had been quelled by police and gendarmes so effectively that at 7:30 p. m. on Tuesday orders went...