Word: sovereignities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near East would be halted by the very fixed boundaries of the new states. Although relinquishing claim to some territory, the Arabs would gain by the increased trade and industry of the entire area. And Britain would retain her essential Middle Eastern military base without interfering with sovereign peoples. Through judicious planning and large scale public works, the Jewish community could fit the large majority of European Jewry into the State within a period of several years...
...What is this sovereign remedy...
...Missouri-born Clarence Streit (rhymes with bright), the idea of a federation of free peoples is both a vision and a career. His favorite citation of its workability: the U.S., which was once a league of sovereign states. As a young A.E.F. veteran and U.S. attaché at Versailles, Streit saw the kind of peacemaking that followed World War I. As a New York Times correspondent at Geneva (1929-39), he saw the kind of peace-keeping that preceded World War II. His book Union Now urged a modified national sovereignty, an international federation of democracies. To promote the ideal...
...State Department announced that "messages from Ambassador [Richard C] Patterson indicate that the demands [of the U.S.] have been complied with," but reserved final action until Tito had fully "made right the wrong." In Belgrade, press and radio continued to charge repeated violations of Yugoslavia's sovereign air, accused the U.S. of a "campaign of calumny." This, week the U.S. transport service resumed its Vienna-Udine runs-now in flying fortresses with machine guns ready for action...
Warsaw spluttered over this "insult to Polish sovereignty" (but failed to protest the erection of Red Army roadblocks following anti-Russian disturbances near Bialystok, in sovereign Poland). The U.S. was especially invited to mind its own business. "And by own business," cracked a Pole in Washington, "we mean the Mississippi primaries...