Sixty-five years later, there are 36 republics in the organisation, which the Queen has attended assiduously throughout her reign, and now comprises a third of the world's population.
We are being woken up by a need to think about something that we have assiduously been ignoring, probably thanks to our work, or our social and family commitments.
Assiduously he drew up dossiers of local police and potential donors, looking out for anyone useful, as he had made use of Baathists and Saddam's former officers in Iraq.