Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their air-thinking, is now dead. Despite its wide touting by Henry Wallace and other quick thinkers, literal "Freedom of the Air" would only be possible if the whole world were under one government. No nation in its right mind now contemplates allowing other nations to fly through its sovereign skies at will...
...home, Mr. King's determined effort to shape the new world satisfies an emergent, self-confident Canada's sovereign aims. His position squares with 1) Canada's claims to a seat on future Pan American councils, 2) the fierce intranationalism of ardently isolationist French Canada, which has always supported Mr. King's noncommittal policy toward the Commonwealth. But the Prime Minister has a ticklish question to answer: Does his policy square with the tide of Commonwealth opinion running strongly in Britain and the other Dominions? Balance for Britain? In Britain, no less than in Canada, there...
...Full military occupation would be necessary, and a more tractable government; henceforth, too, more Hungarian workers for German industry, more Hungarian food for German mouths, would be required. Hungary, in short, was within the inner fortress (Festung Deutschland now, not Festung Europa); the time to play at being a sovereign ally had gone...
...Rumania to get in return northern Transylvania, which Hitler had transferred to Hungary in 1940; to remain sovereign and nonCommunist; to be occupied by U.S. and British troops as well as Russian. This week an unnamed diplomat in Switzerland threw back his cloak just long enough to reveal what he said would be the Allied answer: strikingly parallel terms, except a reminder to Rumanians that northern Bukovina would have to go back with Bessarabia...
...schoolmaster granting his pupils a brief holiday of the spirit, Adler counsels his readers to support or at least not interfere with a revived League of Nations. For a League or a Confederation might, he thinks, help accustom people to the idea of a single sovereign government for the world...