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...Road to Dublin. An old contradiction, plain at San Francisco, became even more inescapable with every month that passed. People everywhere sincerely sought two objectives that were hard to reconcile. They wanted a world organization strong enough to keep peace; they also wanted their own nations to be really sovereign, i.e., strong enough to defend themselves against any "aggressor," including the world organization...
...political following, pursued peace along the same paths. Their most telling argument was the atomic bomb. Yet the bomb, raising doubts about almost everything, had not yet broken down popular reliance on national defense. The world-state idea still had to be sold to the world's several, sovereign states...
Journey to the West. For him, for Greece and for the western world, it had been an interesting trip. The British had given him his first journey by air. In London he had talked with Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, the U.S.'s Jimmy Byrnes, and his exiled sovereign, George II. Thanks to the hostility of Viacheslav Molotov, the bearded statesman of Athens had been excluded from the sessions of the Council of Foreign Ministers (see INTERNATIONAL). But he had made his presence felt in London; he had dramatized the pivotal position of his country in the new geopolitics...
Prince Otto Weriand Hugo Ernst Windisch-Graetz, one of the biggest land holders in the area, turned up in Rome with a solution to this problem: a new sovereign state with himself as ruler. At the very least, he insisted, Yugoslavs must not be permitted to deforest any area ceded to them, lest the springs...
...eastern Europe, Russia had climbed down a little way. It realized at last that the Western powers held a potent threat: they could refuse to sign peace treaties with puppet governments in Eastern Europe. For a fortnight the Russian press raged against Anglo-American interference with internal affairs of sovereign Balkan nations. London denied the charge of Balkan intrigue. Once the U.S. and Britain had taken a firm stand, direct intervention was not necessary to encourage democratic elements in eastern Europe which looked to the West for both economic aid and political sympathy...