Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing as complete freedom of decision for any nation." Even so, sovereignty turned up every day at San Francisco. When Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo said that Argentina should be admitted to the conference without questioning Argentine fascism,† he based his case on the right of a sovereign state to have any kind of government it pleased. Some of the Europeans, who knew well the connection between domestic suppression and foreign aggression, writhed in their seats...
Absolute sovereignty raised its head again when some U.S. delegates objected to part of a seemingly innocent Chinese amendment calling upon the organization to promote "educational and cultural cooperation among nations." They argued that education was the business of each sovereign state and feared that this right would be impaired if the United Nations organization were given any educational responsibilities at all. The Big Four amendments appeared with the words "educational and" deleted. Last week it took a joint lobby of agricultural, business, labor and educational organizations to get "educational and" back again...
...Veto. In some important respects, most of the small states were willing to delegate to the central organization more sovereign power than the large nations would give up. The U.S. and Russia were the only two nations which conceivably could fight the rest of the world even for a time, and these two relied for their security more upon their own armed might than upon collective action. This disparity was the origin of "the Yalta agreement on Security Council voting procedures," which for three weeks had been the key San Francisco issue...
...news of the sovereign Argentine Government's recent behavior, see LATIN AMERICA...
...Assembly was coming out of San Francisco with its slight power only slightly increased. The principle of equality of sovereign nations was still recognized in name only...