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Word: sovereignity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refused to admit that Communist expansion was anything like colonialism. The European satellites "are sovereign nations in the United Nations. How can we consider them colonial territories?" And what about Guatemala? "Is that not an example of another kind of colonialism?" he demanded. "I am not saying that it is. How can we decide which country is subjugated and which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: Upset at Bandung | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

Decreeing "emergency powers" to himself, Ghulam Mohammed revalidated most of the laws, but last week the court ruled that his action was illegal: only an Assembly and a Governor General acting jointly comprise a sovereign body. This was a bit awkward for Ghulam, who dissolved the Assembly last year and now runs a "controlled democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Legal Chaos | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Eden's talk with the Queen lasted half an hour. At the end she clenched her fists and held them out before him, the right on top of the left, to symbolize the holding of the Sovereign's sword. Sir Anthony knelt and kissed them, thereby accepting the office of Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Changing of the Guard | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

Resplendent in silken knee breeches and the broad blue sash of the Garter, he bowed low, first to bestow a token kiss on the young sovereign's hand, and again before shaking hands with her husband, Prince Philip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Prime Backbencher | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...Premier Ngo Dinh Diem,† a resilient, deeply religious Vietnamese nationalist who is burdened with the terrible but challenging task of leading the 10.5 million people of South Viet Nam from the brink of Communism into their long-sought state of sovereign independence. No man in troubled Asia is confronted by more obstacles on the road to order and justice. The sects, in control of a third of the southern portion of the country, threaten not only his control but his life. The refugees from the Communist half of Viet Nam, now exceeding 500,000 and still pouring south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Beleaguered Man | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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