Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference, held on a battleship in mid-Atlantic, was called The Temporary Commission for the Organization of a Permanent World League of Cooperating Sovereign Nations Dedicated to the Preservation of International Peace, Prosperity and Happiness. Churchill was furious because the name wasn't in Basic English, but he turned up just the same. So did Badoglio, Umberto, Pétain, Giraud and Franco. Seven newspaper and radio men were allowed to cover the conference-from a launch alongside the battleship...
...calls his philosophy unanism. An attempt to find a living and usable unity in the shattered, disunited, warring and unhappy modern world, unanism is a conscious decentralization of thought. By its terms (which Romains makes unnecessarily complicated), the old unities that once provided the cement of social life-the sovereign, the church, the family-had lost their power to give zest and meaning to the everyday doings...
Westminster v. Smuts. Back in 1929 Lawyer Burchell helped draft the historic Statute of Westminster, which defined the British Dominions' status as free and sovereign nations, united only in common allegiance to the Crown. Now he was going to the home of a man who has been talking a new and tighter Commonwealth policy: Jan Christiaan Smuts...
There was shrewd diplomatic purpose in the changes. Canada, underlining her sovereign status in the Commonwealth, was also assuming a more active role in world affairs than she has ever played before. This year Canada has already headed a United Nations commission on food and agriculture, assumed the chairmanship of UNRRA's supplies committee. Canada's able, young External Affairs department at Ottawa frankly looks forward to other jobs in shaping the future world...
...relation between man and woman, but ending in the vast reaches of the universe." The practical wisdom of Confucius' prescription for a good ruler, "Be a good son and brother," was a part of his simple and infinitely varied ordering of society into five human relationships: sovereign and subject, parent and child, husband and wife, older brother and younger brother, friend and friend...