Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When we have won the war we shall still have to win the peace. We are agreed, all of us, that America will participate with other sovereign nations in a cooperative effort to prevent future wars. Let us face up boldly to the magnitude of that task. ... It cannot be the work of any one man or of a little group of rulers. . . . The structure of peace must be the work of many men . . . the ablest men and women America can produce...
...platform, immediately after the election announced that the League of Nations was dead. A Republican President elected under the proposed platform of 1944 could, with equal integrity, announce that the U.S. would not enter any world organization in which the nations agree jointly to use their 'sovereign' power for the suppression of aggression. And every effective world organization proposed could be rejected as a 'world state.' And all proposed joint forces for the suppression of aggression could be called armed forces and not 'peace forces...
...National Interests." After this resolute clearing of the ground, Governor Bricker proceeded to build his own foreign-policy platform. He came out flatly for U.S. participation in "a cooperative organization of sovereign nations. . . . The major purpose of such an institution must be to establish a reign of law among nations. . . . Personally, I have always felt that the United States should join the World Court...
...home near Hollywood last week, the gentlest, most poetic of U.S. popular artists laid down his pen at last. George Herriman, 63, creator of the sovereign comic strip, Krazy Kat, died after a long illness. Hundreds of thousands of readers, who knew the love-daft Kat and his curious companions as well as they knew their own dreams, knew little or nothing of their inventor. But as friends and colleagues talked of this modest little man, as he never on earth would have talked of himself, a figure of almost Franciscan sweetness emerged. "If ever there was a saint...
Intolerant Party. Before China can realize Sun Yat-sen's principle of democracy the Kuomintang must be basically reorganized. Twenty years after its reorganization, the party has no "democratic inspiration" for the nation. It suppresses criticism from outside and inside. It regards itself as "the sovereign power in the state, entitled to the enjoyment of a special position," though it directly represents only an "infinitesimal portion" (less than 1%) of China's 450,000,000 people...