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...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...
...which nations would progressively sacrifice chunks of their sovereignty for the common good. Pierre Mendès-France, France's new man of the hour, has substituted a tougher, harder-bargaining diplomacy in which nations make accommodations and pacts with one another, but jealously cling to their sovereign authority. In this he has the powerful support of the British Foreign Office, which instinctively prefers the more pragmatic, national approach. At the London Conference, the new pragmatism paid off triumphantly in the seven-nation Western European Union...