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Word: sovereignity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China and the Open Door meet again soon. As any such meeting is infuriating to Japanese minds, President Roosevelt has not wished to act as host in Washington, "and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has felt the same about London. Last week King Leopold III of the Belgians, Statesman Sovereign of the smallest Nine-Power Treaty signatory, agreed readily "at the request of the British Government and with the approval of the Government of the United States," to be host in Brussels on Oct. 30 and to have the Belgian Government send out the invitations, not only to signatories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Again Liberty Bonds | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...last week, that usually suave diplomat, Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, took the gloves off and bluntly explained that the real purpose of Japan's expeditionary force is not to conquer China, but to kick out Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In words chosen with far less tact than his sovereign was about to use to explain the Sino-Japanese War, Mr. Hirota observed: "We are fighting anti-Japanese movements in China. These exist largely in the Chinese Army, and General Chiang Kai-shek is their spearhead. The leaders of present-day China have long fostered anti-Japanism as a tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Frankness | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...because of New York's statute of limitations. The bank won in the lower court, lost last week in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Ruled Judge Thomas W. Swan: a statute of limitations cannot be invoked against the U. S. Government; to permit it against a sovereign foreign government would be to deny its sovereignty; therefore Russia's claim was adjudicable; therefore that claim can now be prosecuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Intricacies & Variations | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Since Egypt was already an "Independent Sovereign State" by the Treaty of 1922, the new Treaty is one of "Military Alliance/' intended to flatter Egyptians with the notion that they are held in esteem by the British as allies on equal terms. Held the Egyptians continue to be, for Britain is to retain 10,000 troops in the Suez Canal zone and British bombing planes have the right to operate freely over any part of Egypt-with Egyptian bombing planes given for the first time the privilege of operating freely over England.* The British Navy retains its permanent base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Boy Scout into Field Marshal | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Similarly, although new King Farouk is "Sovereign of the Sudan," the Sudan is actually ruled by a Governor General who remains British and commands British troops under the treaty which is for 20 years, automatically extended then for another 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Boy Scout into Field Marshal | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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