Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period in history when 12,000 Jews died each day in the Nazi gas chambers at Oswiecim; four years since the battered Third Reich had surrendered to the overwhelming might of the U.S. and its Allies. A new regime, already endowed with many of the powers of a respected, sovereign nation, was rising from Germany's ruins. The Western world, led by the U.S., was about to slip the shackles off defeated Germany; it would try to guide the country which had been both monster and genius, insane destroyer and industrious creator, to a place among the free nations...
...Western powers had actually conceded more than Adenauer and his government had expected to get. Last week the Chancellor and the Western High Commissioners began negotiations to put the Paris agreement to work. (The Germans loved the word "negotiations"-it gave them a standing as a semi-sovereign nation which they had not known since the war.) Vast difficulties still remained, including the possibility that in this week's foreign-policy debate the French Assembly might try to whittle down the Paris decisions. But, as Konrad Adenauer put it, "The German Federal Republic has this day taken a great...
...closest city is Trenton, considered by Princetonians as the poor man's Scollay Square. Last year the Nassau Sovereign described Trenton as "a fair rose, a blushing maiden," with its tongue so far in its cheek that it almost choked. Students who go there are viewed as morally depraved, even if just for the movies...
...Italian politics are serious. Guiliano, the Sicilian baudit, still maintains a sovereign state around Palermo against all efforts of the local constabulary. He is constantly in the news: at one point when the police commissioner put up a large reward for Guiliano's capture, Guiliano retorted by putting up a reward for the capture of the police commissioner. He has also offered to cedo Sicily to the U. S., but so far Washington hasn't taken...
White Horse. Within 24 hours, Vishinsky broke the splendid spell. At the steering committee's first meeting, he bitingly scorned a proposal to establish a modest 300-man guard for U.N. "I can see Mr. Lie on a white horse leading his forces against the forces of a sovereign nation, carrying a blue flag on which are the words 'United Nations.' Let us be reasonable, gentlemen . . ." The crowded committee room resounded with politely appreciative laughter...