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...does not make any distinction between the condition of those lands beyond the seas whose people have attained autonomous self-government, and the colonies which are still lands under dominion." He promised to see what could be done, but reminded the House of Commons that for any change the consent of other members of the British Commonwealth of Nations would be needed...
...much to us as though the Soviet Union is trying to sell the same horse twice." Replied Molotov: "We did not approach this problem of reparations from a point of view of merchants, but we do not want other merchants selling our horse at a low price without our consent." (The strong equine note in the discussion reminded observers of an old Russian proverb which applied to the Ministers' quadripartite steeplechase: "Even with four legs, a horse can stumble...
...desk. From Africa she writes him several letters a week. He is such a family fixture at the Palace that Queen Elizabeth has sometimes had to rebuke him for ordering the servants about too much. King George can approve his daughter's marriage only with the consent of the Cabinet, and so far Philip's connection with the Greek regime, remote as it is, has been a slight hitch. But last week, as plain Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, Prince Philip was granted his British citizenship, and even that hitch seemed to have been overcome. When Elizabeth is asked about...
Foreign Minister Georges Bidault notified the Council that France could not consent to economic reconstitution of Germany unless the other powers agreed to her demands for guarantees of German coal...
During the war, the U.S. was chiefly concerned in safeguarding two points essential to hemispheric defense: 1) the jutting bulge of Brazil (ten hours by air from the German threat at Dakar); 2) the Panama Canal. With the consent of the interested Governments, bases were constructed in Brazil (Natal, Recife and six other big fields), in Panama (130 temporary bases, spotted around the isthmus), in Ecuador (Salinas, near Guayaquil, and the Galapagos Islands); in northern Peru at Talara, near Standard Oil [N.J.] fields...