Word: sovereignities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balance of the Dead. Invaded and trampled by successive hordes of Greeks, Arabs, Saracens, Mongols, Persians, Tartars and Turks, the Armenians after World War I had turned tired but hopeful eyes to the Western powers to support their plea for a sovereign, free Armenian nation. But at Versailles their dream faded, while the Turks "regulated the Armenian question" by killing over...
...light of the fact that the British government supported the Chetnik leader for two years. Heavy-set, tough-looking Ernest Bevin lurches to his feet and answers that the British government made certain information known to the Yugoslav government, but could not interfere further in a trial in a sovereign nation. And so the business goes on until the questions are exhausted. Then to the major business of the day, a full dress debate upon the future of the BBC, each speaker having been chosen in advance to represent all views. Some members leave the chamber, but the majority remain...
Renner is proud that Austria has a sovereign government with its own police force, vigorously reminds the Allies that Austria, unlike Germany, is to be treated as a liberated and not as a conquered nation, according to the Moscow pact.* He also keeps storming against Austria's partition into occupation zones. The quadripartition has completely paralyzed the Austrian economy. Renner also fights a running verbal battle (probably futile) for the return of Southern Tyrol, ably supported by Austria's Dr. Karl Gruber...
...Straits Settlements (excluding Singapore) into a single Malay federation was worked out long ago, "in the Coalition days. An ardent Tory, Sir Harold MacMichael, went out to Malaya last October to explain the plan to the nine Sultans. The Sultans themselves promptly consented to sign away all their sovereign powers (except their religious authority). Then they got to thinking it over...
...would be only to attend a peace conference, when one is held, in Paris. He would be glad to drop in on Prime Minister Attlee and other friends in London en route. But he would not help London window-dress any so-called Empire Conference. Canada was a sovereign, independent nation. London had better understand that right...