Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doren urged the immediate establishment of a world government, under which heretofore sovereign nations would surrender both the right and, more important, the power to wage war. World control of atomic power, as opposed to international control, was also asked by Van Doren...
Barriers of Interest. The fault is not wholly with the U.S. All nations pay lip service to free trade; all fail to practice it. The British agreed to ITO in order to get the U.S. loan, but they fear that it means sacrificing their sovereign power over their own markets to become dependent on an economically undependable U.S. Many
...energy. The 79-page report leaves no question as to the gravity of the problem and the need for decisive and immediate action toward its solution. And the authors--Walter Lippmann, General Arnold, and thirteen top-ranking scientists--conclude that the only way to this solution lies in a sovereign world organization designed to eradicate both the right and the possibility of waging...
...Sovereignty today means nothing. That the United States wants to project its sovereignty by keeping the 'secret' means nothing. The sovereign state idea is out of date. All it means today is the privelege of being attacked by a nation with the atomic bomb. With the terrible advance in warfare and the cheapening of the cost of war, such an attack is no longer a speculation. We used it on Japan, and we are considered humanitarian...
...taking over the bank, in which the Government had hitherto held only a part interest, Peron obtained for the state "its sovereign right to issue money," and what was more immediately important, the right to borrow enough money to finance his huge military program. Argentina's military government has not come near balancing its budget since it seized power nearly three years ago. In that time the budget doubled, with military expenditures accounting for nearly half of the total. Peron's schedule for air-base construction alone-most of it along the Brazilian and Paraguayan borders-will cost...