Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RECOGNIZE FORMOSA AS A SOVEREIGN STATE...
...third possibility is to recognize Formosa as a sovereign state on the grounds that it is effectively controlled by a government which repudiates the authority of Peking and cannot be dislodged except by the defeat of the United States in war, just as the People's Republic, which was helped to power by Russia, cannot be overthrown except by the defeat of Russia. The British official doctrine is the "realist" one that recognition does not imply approval, but merely acceptance in international relations of an effective and apparently stable rule over a particular territory. It would be well...
...Geneva failed him at Brussels. From its birth, EDC had stood in danger of being killed by its enemies; but at Brussels it was EDC's friends who preferred to see it killed rather than emasculated. In its death struggle, EDC provided one unforeseen consolation. By forcing five sovereign governments to stand up and defend its supranational clauses, EDC, in death, had given proof of the life that was in the ideal. Mendés the realist, with his ability to weigh facts, apparently had not known how to measure the strength of an ideal...
...Japan, a sovereign nation, is poor, almost broke, worried, and professedly ready to reform. Her usable foreign exchange stands at $640 million, down from $800 million last December. Economists say that the "peril point" is $500 million. Below that figure, the effect will be like that of failure rumors on an uninsured bank...
...Resident General in Rabat, the political capital, they sent this solemn message: "A sacred religious obligation is imposed upon us to counsel the right, to reprove the wrong . . . We judge it opportune to demand in the name of Islam and of the Moroccan people the return of their legal sovereign, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, to the throne." Then, in secrecy, the priests reached another decision. Suicide is a deadly sin in Moslem theology, but the conclave decided to sanction the use of cyanide capsules by any Moroccan patriot who might be captured by the French...