Word: sovereignly
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...Straits Settlements (excluding Singapore) into a single Malay federation was worked out long ago, "in the Coalition days. An ardent Tory, Sir Harold MacMichael, went out to Malaya last October to explain the plan to the nine Sultans. The Sultans themselves promptly consented to sign away all their sovereign powers (except their religious authority). Then they got to thinking it over...
...would be only to attend a peace conference, when one is held, in Paris. He would be glad to drop in on Prime Minister Attlee and other friends in London en route. But he would not help London window-dress any so-called Empire Conference. Canada was a sovereign, independent nation. London had better understand that right...
...Doren urged the immediate establishment of a world government, under which heretofore sovereign nations would surrender both the right and, more important, the power to wage war. World control of atomic power, as opposed to international control, was also asked by Van Doren...
Barriers of Interest. The fault is not wholly with the U.S. All nations pay lip service to free trade; all fail to practice it. The British agreed to ITO in order to get the U.S. loan, but they fear that it means sacrificing their sovereign power over their own markets to become dependent on an economically undependable U.S. Many
...energy. The 79-page report leaves no question as to the gravity of the problem and the need for decisive and immediate action toward its solution. And the authors--Walter Lippmann, General Arnold, and thirteen top-ranking scientists--conclude that the only way to this solution lies in a sovereign world organization designed to eradicate both the right and the possibility of waging...