Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strangest examples of misguided idealism in those innocent first days after World War II was Article 9 in the constitution which Douglas MacArthur handed down to the Japanese. Says Article 9: "The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation, and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes. Land, sea and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained." After Korea, Douglas MacArthur himself had to direct a semantic flanking movement around Article 9. Japan's "ground self-defense force" now counts about...
...foreign spies caught in China is China's internal affair," he said coldly. "There is no justification at all for the United Nations to try to interfere. . . No amount of clamor on the part of the U.S. can shake China's just stand of exercising its own sovereign rights...
Gladstone suffered bitterly from the displeasure of a sovereign whom he served loyally as Prime Minister no fewer than four times. But he was never overwhelmed, either by the Queen or her supporters, for one simple reason: he believed with all his heart that everything he did-and much of what was done to him-was in obedience to the express commands of the Almighty. If his Liberal Party scored over Disraeli's Tories, Gladstone did not congratulate his supporters. "To God be the praise," he declared. And there was even an occasion on which God's dexterous...
Strydom has two lines of action. He wants to break with the British Commonwealth and make South Africa a republic in which Afrikaners will hold the sovereign power and Afrikaans will be the only official language. In this republic, he wants complete segregation of the races and the disenfranchisement of all non-whites (Negroes, Indians and mixed bloods), who make up five-sixths of the population. His ideas are summed up in the slogan he had carried through the Transvaal: Die witman moet baas bly (The white man must remain boss...
Instead of viewing revision as it might affect U.S. interests, Cousins attacked the concept of a "fully sovereign state." "There is a natural conflict between national interests and human interests," he warned...