Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, Southeast Asia is riding the crest of a wave of nationalism. The years since the second World War have seen the shattering of colonial bonds and the emergence of half a dozen sovereign states. Balanced between the Soviet countries and the West, these Asian powers fear for their national lives. Experiences of the past make them sharply opposed to imperialism; yet, though none are pro-Communist, not all are directly opposed to Communism...
...outstretched in the gesture that once thrilled all France, General Charles de Gaulle, 63, spoke his mind. "France has a humane mission," he said. "[It] is undoubtedly to ensure that the two halves of the world do not cast themselves into the abyss . . . Above all, let us remain France, sovereign, independent and free!" His followers thundered applause...
What the democratic West had failed to achieve in all of four years' diplomacy -a sovereign, rearmed West Germany-the Soviet Union ordained in East Germany with a flick of its whip. Last week the Kremlin announced that the Soviet occupation of its East German satellite is at an end, that the puppet "People's Republic" will now be "a sovereign state . .. free to decide, at its own discretion, its own internal and external affairs...
...policemen" has deserted or has been purged since the June 17 riots, according to West German sources.) Last week, for the first time, the Communists called the so-called police by their proper name: the East German Streitkrafte (fighting forces). Diplomatically, the Kremlin hoped for even greater gains. A "sovereign" East Germany could plausibly be a step toward the gargantuan pan-European security pact that Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov proposed at the Berlin Conference as a Red alternative to NATO (TIME, Feb. 22). It might also force the West, which has previously been able to ignore the East German regime...
...general. More important, the U.S. bluntly served notice that it soon plans to press for West Germany's return to sovereignty, with or without EDC. "The occupying powers are agreed," said U.S. High Commissioner James B. Conant in Bonn, "that the West German Republic shall become a sovereign state. If by chance this should not come to pass in the near future, I feel sure that ... it is in the best interest of all concerned that [German independence] should be put into force. In other words, the period of occupation is coming...