Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this decade, under the banners of reform, you have usurped our sovereign . power by curtailing the Bill of Rights, by short-circuiting the states, and by placing in the hands of a few men in executive commissions all the powers requisite to tyranny; and we, the people, say to you: we do not want monopolistic government, any more than we want monopolistic industry. Give us back the powers that our forefathers declared to be ours; liberate us to govern ourselves...
...Marshal Stalin has repeatedly declared himself in favor of a strong and friendly Poland, sovereign and independent, and in this our great Eastern Ally is in the fullest accord with His Majesty's Government and also, judging from public statements, with that of the United States...
...Reluctantly, but as a good soldier, I repeat that I will accept and serve in this office, if I am so ordered by the Commander in Chief of us all-the sovereign people of the United States...
Asia. Combining about 522,000,000 people in about 42 sovereign states, it is the only area of the planet where "the facts of international life conform with the spirit of the Atlantic Charter." The Atlantic is the crucial area of U.S. fate...
...busiest spots in Rome since the Allies entered the city five weeks ago has been Vatican City, the only sovereign state no bigger than an 18-hole golf course. One of its busiest persons has been Pope Pius XII,* who has granted audiences to more than 25,000 United Nations servicemen & women...