Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offered them the opposite-a policy of the political carom shot, the showdown avoided, the adroit maneuver, the delicate adjustment. Last week the Deputies of France suddenly discovered that they were no longer amused by Edgar's "cleverness" either. Since in France the Assembly's whim is sovereign, this petulance brought France's government to its knees...
When the American Legion this week condemned UNESCO for propagating "adherence to a nebulous world government," the Legion was falling into an error common to many critics of the United Nations and its agencies. As a league of sovereign nations, the U.N. is hardly a world government. True world government--as its proponents readily admit--is a long way off, almost as far away now as it was in the late 1930's when the movement began in this country...
...other hand, the Arab-Asian nations, blandly encouraged by the Soviet bloc, had picked a most sensitive and questionable case in which to pit their whim against the loosely worded U.N. Charter prohibition against meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign nations. Unlike Morocco, a protectorate, Algeria is, in French eyes, at least as much a part of France as Alaska is part of the U.S. This much of the French case the U.S. supported when it voted with France against any U.N. debate...
Item: Morocco still boiled, despite French moves to create what they called "a free sovereign state" that would be permanently tied to France by an act of "interdependence." The toll since Aug. 20: about 3,000 dead, thousands more wounded...
...Nationalists denounced Moulay Arafa as a puppet and usurper. In the great mosque at Fez, the bearded priests of the Prophet issued a solemn edict: "In the name of Islam and the Moroccan people we demand the return of the legal sovereign, Ben Youssef." Istiqlal's moderate leaders, most of them French-educated businessmen with little stomach for violence, pleaded with their followers to avoid bloodshed, and petitioned the French for reforms...