Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC CONTROL. There is little prospect of stable peace while two or more inimical sovereign govern ments have uncontrolled power over the manufacture and use of atomic weapons. The U.S. proposed international control even when it had a monopoly, but the U.S.S.R. has persistently refused to agree to the thorough inspection that would be necessary to make control effective. The U.S.S.R. wants to "abolish" atomic weapons, i.e., it wants to sign a toothless agreement which a democratic country would keep, but which the U.S.S.R. could ignore...
Five Minutes Only. Perhaps the West Germans' apathy came from the fact that the reality had so long preceded the ceremony. One German woman wondered why a foreign newsman congratulated her. "You are now a sovereign nation again," he explained. "Oh, that." she said, and walked away. A newspaper asked 40 people what was significant about the date, found that 33 had no idea...
...that if he read out the proclamation of sovereignty, the Social Democrats would consider the statement grounds for opening a full-dress foreign policy debate. After an hour's dispute, the Socialists agreed to allow Adenauer to send a message stating the fact that the Federal Republic was sovereign at last, but he must not read it himself. Each party would get five minutes for comment. That...
...toots and Te Deums were all in preparation for the arrival this week of the slim, spectacled young man who is King of the Belgians and, as such, the sovereign lord of 14 million Congolese. It will be his first state visit to his African Empire...
...years, looked upon a cheering sight. With the Stars and Stripes, the Union Jack, the Hammer and Sickle and the Tricolor floated Austria's red and white flag. Inside the building, the occupiers bent to their task: arranging for the red and white of Austria to fly sovereign and alone...