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...absolutely disapprove such sentimental or political doctrines or views. There are no young, independent sovereign nations, there are no older and younger brothers of the American continent. All are of the same age from a political and spiritual viewpoint, and the only difference between them is the different historic moment in their economic progress...
...statement to this startling effect and a masterly review of the Sovereign's entire illness was issued, last week, by the Royal physicians, and printed simultaneously in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal. The thirteen days from Dec. 2 to Dec. 15 were mentioned as the most critical; and His Majesty's condition of last week was described thus: "It will be apparent to medical men that not only the severity and the length of the infection but the exhaustion resulting therefrom must make progress slow and difficult...
Theoretically supreme and sovereign is the Congress of the Nationalist Party. This is by no means a democratically elected body. Its members represent the Party alone, much as the new Italian Parliament will represent not the "People" but the Fascist Party...
...actually in existence at the neutral capital of Montevideo, Uruguay, last week a conciliation commission as provided in the Gondra Convention, presided over by the Mexican Minister to Uruguay, Senor Fortunato Vega. Nonetheless, the position of the Bolivian Government as expounded by the newspaper El Norte was: "The sovereign Congress of Bolivia has never approved the Gondra Convention; and even if it had the convention tends to prevent armed conflicts, not to suppress them once they have begun, as in the present case...
King of Arms. The Sovereign could now dismiss all anxiety for the safe administration of the Realm. But his wise preparation for even Death heightened, stirred and put on their mettle the Earl Marshals of Arms, the two Kings of Arms, the six Heralds and the four Pursuivants. Should Death come it would be the awesome duty of these 13 personages to make oral proclamation, some three days after the event*, from the Friary Court balcony of St. James's Palace; and thereafter and furthermore to proclaim the accession of the new Sovereign, proclaim it again at Charing Cross...