Word: sovereignities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been touted as the forum where all nations, big and small, would have an equal voice. True, a voice was about all the Assembly would have-the power was concentrated in the eleven-member Security Council, dominated by the big fellows. For that very reason, the Assembly's "sovereign equality" was precious to the little fellows...
...Lonesome Polecat" Richards journeyed to Wellesley and thence to the Totem Pole for a little weekend excitement. And then we have the life and love of Bill Shuey of the stoned fame, and his crushing roommate H. P. Mitchell, late of UCLA. Recent cowardly attacks upon our sovereign state by H. B. Wood under the watchful eye of a prominent naval officer--better known as "the protector"--have caused us here to remark that the Golden State waits only for Florida to secede to join the Union...
...been that ample compensation should be gained for Poland at the expense of Germany in the north and west. ... I assert with the utmost conviction the broad justice of the policy upon which, for the first time, all the three great Allies have now taken their stand. ... A most sovereign declaration has been made by Marshal Stalin and the Soviet Union that the sovereign independence of Poland is to be maintained, and this decision is now joined in by Great Britain and the United States. . . . Poles will have their future in their own hands with the single limitation that they...
...sovereign nation may choose to drug itself with suspicion, cynicism, isolation, and history does not deny a great man his place because his aims and methods are objectionable. "History," someone has said, "is a record of events which ought not to have happened." But Joseph Stalin...
...Greek financial system lay prostrate. Finance Minister Alexander Svolos begged for confidence. Said Svolos: the country's credit is fundamentally sound, its gold reserve is worth $175,000,000. But the gold reserve is abroad, and the home reaction to Svolos' appeal was immediate: the British gold sovereign (U.S. value: $4) rose from ten trillion drachmas to 22 trillions...