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...Sovereign State. Most of the real obstacles were as obvious, as untechnical, as familiar-and as unnoticed-as household furniture...
There was the sovereign state. Every delegate represented one, and, as a public official, was sworn to uphold its sovereignty...
...thing as complete freedom of decision for any nation." Even so, sovereignty turned up every day at San Francisco. When Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo said that Argentina should be admitted to the conference without questioning Argentine fascism,† he based his case on the right of a sovereign state to have any kind of government it pleased. Some of the Europeans, who knew well the connection between domestic suppression and foreign aggression, writhed in their seats...
Absolute sovereignty raised its head again when some U.S. delegates objected to part of a seemingly innocent Chinese amendment calling upon the organization to promote "educational and cultural cooperation among nations." They argued that education was the business of each sovereign state and feared that this right would be impaired if the United Nations organization were given any educational responsibilities at all. The Big Four amendments appeared with the words "educational and" deleted. Last week it took a joint lobby of agricultural, business, labor and educational organizations to get "educational and" back again...
Model Symbol. In Asia, Japan was making history whose consequences for the world are still incalculable. Through it all, Hirohito remained a model Shinto sovereign-conventional, secluded, aloof, a proper family man as well as national deity. He rose early each morning (6 or 7 a.m.), shaved himself, bowed before the little shrine of his ancestors in his copper-domed Tokyo castle, breakfasted in foreign style on coffee, bacon & eggs, shuffled through the papers on his desk. Thirteen times a year, clad in the white silk robe of high priest, he officiated at major Shinto rites. His wartime frugality...