Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adler says flatly that there can be no peace between sovereign states; at best there can be nothing more than an uneasy "truce," a period of jockeying and diplomatic cheating preliminary to the next outbreak of armed conflict. Mr. Lippmann is Adler's particular semantic bete noire, for Mr. Lippmann is always using the word "peace" when Adler thinks he should be speaking of "truce" or "armistice." The average reader may think this a matter of verbal quibble, for Mr. Lippmann uses the word peace with the full knowledge that there are kinds and degrees of peace...
...principle, the deal does not affect postwar rights. But Canada is clearly prepared to assert her sovereign prerogatives on the northwest passage, is taking a full hand in the postwar contest for the world...
...George VI ... Emperor. . . ." therefore embodies a hope and a prospect which is all-important to Britons, important to all the world. War has at once tightened and loosened the bonds of Empire. Sovereign, national aims conflict in Canada with a never-dying tie to Britain. Aspirations both regional and national stir New Zealand and Australia. South Africa's great Prime Minister, Field Marshal and Elder Statesman Jan Christiaan Smuts, feels grave responsibility both for Imperial Britain and for the independent integrity of his own country. India, the jewel of Empire, strains away from Empire, yet gives (or sells...
...Greeks. For Peter's neighbor sovereign in exile, 43-year-old King George of Greece, sheltered by Britain but unwanted by his people, Winston Churchill had no mention. Of the divided Greeks themselves he complained that one faction had "murdered" a British officer, and added: "It is painful to see [their] confusion and internecine strife. . . . Greek killing Greek with munitions sent to them for killing Germans...
...another room' a U.S. Army officer tackled Marshal Budenny for a signature on his short-snorter. Budenny refused to sign his name on Soviet currency with Lenin's picture. Then he refused to sign the currency of any sovereign nation. Finally he wrote his name on a plain slip of paper. Budenny and the American drank a toast. "May the next one be in Berlin," said the American. Bowing low, Budenny hoped the next would be much sooner than that...