Word: nationhood
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...they were, dreamed wistfully of a return to Palestine, waited for the Messiah who was to lead them back. But by one of history's ironies it was not the religious fervor of Judaism that finally brought them back from the Diaspora. It was a new feeling of nationhood among a people united partly by religion (though among them were atheists), partly by race (though many bore no blood relation to the biblical tribesmen who were their "ancestors"), partly by tradition (though they included extreme political and social experimenters), but chiefly by fellow-suffering. Despite differences among them, they...
...their backs on the starving millions in India. UNRRA does not operate in India, and relief officials in Washington have satisfied themselves that they have adequate reasons for refusing to sell to India the wheat she has offered to pay for in British pounds sterling. On the threshold of nationhood, her population totalling one-fifth of the people of the world, India is repeatedly enduring conditions of hunger and famine...
...from land to land, were vastly different. All wanted security ("Give peace in our time, O Lord"). But on what other fundamental did they agree? Area of Agreement. Yet for nine weeks, and in surprising amity, the delegates at San Francisco labored together. One thing they had in common-nationhood, and the precious sovereignty which went with it. A great fact of San Francisco was that the nations were willing to give up a little of their sovereignty-just a little-to the world organization...
Burden of the Victors. In short, what the Italians wanted was full nationhood, and they wanted it while their late enemies were still fighting their late Allies, the Germans, on Italian soil. Such demands inevitably irritated Frenchmen who had not forgotten Mussolini's stab in the back, Britons and Americans whose comrades had lately fallen under Italian fire, Greeks and Yugoslavs whom Italians had lately robbed...
...years as Prime Minister, Laurier had ruled Canada and the Liberal Party. Under him Canada had grown to nationhood. Bourassa approved when Laurier compelled Britain to acknowledge Canada's autonomy. But when Laurier sent Canadian contingents to fight in the Boer War, Bourassa turned against...