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...that there was no longer room for the delicate-and probably impossible-task of mediating between a sovereign government and armed rebels, U.S.-Chinese relations could return to normal diplomatic channels. In Ambassador Leighton Stuart, the Chinese people would keep a good, old friend; if & when George Marshall departed, they would bid farewell to a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: End & Beginning | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Madura; second, Borneo; third, "The Great East," made up of Bali, the Celebes, the Moluccas, Dutch New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda Islands. These three autonomous areas would be linked as equal partners in the United States of Indonesia, and within two years the U.S.I. would be rated a sovereign power under Queen Wilhelmina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Birth of a Nation | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...power. The name: Communications Workers of America. The power: to clamp a throttling silence on 30,000,000 U.S. telephones with the flip of a switchboard jack. Both will become effective next June, after N.F.T.W.'s autonomous unions ratify the new constitution, formally turn over their sovereign rights to a new national policy board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Titan | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...world, with the exception of the sovereign state of Vermont, knew virtually nothing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Ambassador to the World | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...prophecy that the elimination of the veto would mean the end of the United Nations applies to the idea with curious irony. Such a step as proportional representation would indeed mean the end of the United Nations--a United Nations whose Statement of Purposes contains the utterly anachronistic "sovereign equality of all member nations"--but an end, despite the difficulty of its attainment, that would be a new beginning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNsettled | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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