Word: sovereignities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Until [there is a] restoration of a healthy European community, it does not appear possible that paper agreements can assure a lasting peace. Agreements between sovereign states are generally the reflection and not the cause of genuine settlements...
...despise your attitude towards our sovereign, his family and our-Empire, and it would please me very much if your magazine were banned from Canada...
...Says Article 9 of Japan's new constitution: ". . . The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish [this aim, arms] will never be maintained...
...when the Central Powers' victory seemed certain, an Austrian clique dreamed of welding Austria, Hungary and the Ukraine into a new tripartite empire. They picked blond, slender Wilhelm to be its sovereign, put him to studying Ukrainian. Soon he wrote nostalgic Ukrainian verse about the landscapes he had scarcely ever seen. He started wearing Ukrainian embroidered blouses and from them took his royal pseudonym, Vasily Vichivany (vichivany means embroidered). In 1918, he fought the Russians as colonel of a Ukrainian regiment...
...years, the puppet King has tried doggedly to curb the Communists, but he is their virtual prisoner in his gilt & gingerbread palace at Sinaia. Any contact between sovereign and subjects is rigorously discouraged by the Communists. His own two aunts are little better than Russian agents. His Speech from the Throne last week, at the opening of Rumania's Parliament, was plainly dictated by Communist Petru Groza, the King's first minister and Rumania's real boss. "Friendship and cooperation in all fields with the U.S.S.R.," read Michael, "remain the very basis of Rumanian foreign policy. Rumania...