Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republic 15. In effect, World War II added half a dozen sovereign nations, from Lithuania to Albania, to the roster of suppressed nationalities. But the worst fate of all befell the three Baltic Republics: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. They were "accepted into the U.S.S.R." as Republics...
Looking for a Tito. Inside the Kremlin, walled off from the biting Moscow winter, they held council of cold war with their superiors. They came not as sovereign heads of state, but as servants, and they returned to their countries to rule in the name of Malenkov as they had previously ruled in the name of Stalin...
...Sovereign Trust. In pursuing this policy, Rhee may well be moved by real distrust of Korea's manipulating politicians. But there is something more to his actions than counter-manipulation: his passionate belief that he governs by sovereign right conferred on him by the Korean people. This belief he clearly demonstrated in his row with the National Assembly last year. According to Korea's five-year-old constitution, the Assembly elects the President. Rhee's term being about to expire, the Assembly wished to exercise its constitutional right. Since the majority were opposed to Rhee, this meant...
...this country was willing to give up important sovereign rights for a United States of Europe...
...Scottish edifice that is "held up only by the ivy." Among its occupants: the impoverished 19th Earl of Locharne (David Tomlinson), who has lost just about everything but his sense of humor; an eccentric, kilt-clad dame (Margaret Rutherford), who is bent on establishing the earl as the rightful sovereign of Scotland; a National Coal Board man (Brian Oulton), who is assigned to commandeer the castle as a hostel for miners. The plot is thickened by a wealthy American widow (Barbara Kelly), who is out to buy the castle, and by a pretty blonde ghost named Ermyntrude (Patricia Dainton...