Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still Hope. Walter Ulbricht will never be happy until his troubled land is elevated from occupied status to become a full-fledged, sovereign nation. This Nikita Khrushchev has promised time and time again since 1958, as he has threatened to sign a peace treaty and let the German Democratic Republic take over its own affairs (including control of the West's presence in, and access to, Berlin). The current mood in Moscow is to give Ulbricht his treaty this fall. So far, virtually no important non-Communist nation has recognized the G.D.R. diplomatically, but Ulbricht is working feverishly...
...Alliance for Progress funds. The original suggestion called for a board of seven "wise men" to sit in permanent session. The plan appealed to the small nations, but was violently opposed by Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Chile, who looked upon the board as an attempt to jeopardize their sovereign right to plan their own economic development. Caught in the middle, the U.S. delegation moved quickly to find a compromise, arranged a secret caucus with Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Mexico...
...Dinh Diem is no democrat by instinct; he remains aloof from the masses in the tradition of a mandarin who follows the ancient Confucian code of a divinely guided prince. "A sacred respect is due the person of the sovereign. He is the mediator between the people and heaven as he celebrates the national cult," he once wrote. A chain-smoking bachelor, he runs things his way, taking advice only from a few aides and his tight-knit family; his closest adviser is a brother who has an office in the palace. All departmental reports go to Diem's office...
...Sovereign Choice. Parliament's Tory and Labor backbenchers last week held a three-hour debate on Common Market entry. (Macmillan and Labor's Hugh Gaitskell were conspicuously absent to ensure that the issue did not come to a premature vote.) Though Britain's immediate problems in entering the Common Market are economic-protecting her farmers, safeguarding Commonwealth trade-the ultimate question involved is national sovereignty and prestige. This issue cuts straight across party lines...
...months ago recommended strict penalties against "foreign" magazines sold in Canada. Said the Commission: "Only a truly Canadian printing press, one with the 'feel' of Canada and directly responsible to Canada, can give us the critical analysis, the informed discourse and dialogue which are indispensable in a sovereign society...