Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that there was no longer room for the delicate-and probably impossible-task of mediating between a sovereign government and armed rebels, U.S.-Chinese relations could return to normal diplomatic channels. In Ambassador Leighton Stuart, the Chinese people would keep a good, old friend; if & when George Marshall departed, they would bid farewell to a good...
...world, with the exception of the sovereign state of Vermont, knew virtually nothing about...
...town of Guernica, twelve miles northeast of Bilbao, is the ancient seat of Basque democracy. At the sacred Oak of Guernica (now a dried old stump), the Kings of Spain used to swear to protect Basque rights, whereupon the citizens would confer on the sovereign the title of Senor de Vizcaya...
...prophecy that the elimination of the veto would mean the end of the United Nations applies to the idea with curious irony. Such a step as proportional representation would indeed mean the end of the United Nations--a United Nations whose Statement of Purposes contains the utterly anachronistic "sovereign equality of all member nations"--but an end, despite the difficulty of its attainment, that would be a new beginning...
Tomorrow, the fifty-one sovereign states of the United Nations General Assembly will meet on ground that seven years ago was dedicated to the "World of Tomorrow." Here through all the skepticism, the haggling and the hot tempers, is another dedication to the future. Here, in once-swampy Flushing meadow is the machinery that may be the only effective antidote to the atom bomb, to germ warfare, to rocket missiles. Here, for all the uncertainly, intolerance, and misunderstanding, lies the last hope...