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...newsmen in Washington, who cabled stern stories back home. Shooting at the speech's most vulnerable spot, the London Timesman wrote: "Not by a single word did she show any awareness that the rights of innocent passage and free landing . . . must and would be reciprocally agreed as between sovereign nations." Henry Wallace answered his detractor: "I am sure the vast bulk of the Republicans do not want to stir up animosity against either our Russian or English Allies. . . ." In Detroit, Poet Carl Sandburg interrupted a Lincoln Day speech: "I'm sorry for anybody who talks of 'globaloney...
...birth on British soil might make him technically a Briton, would complicate matters. Therefore to smooth the path of the Dutch succession, the Dominion Government last week decreed that during the hours of childbirth (expected this month) Canada will grant extraterritorial rights to the birthplace and suspend all its sovereign claims to that part of the earth under the delivery room...
From one of the council's members, Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson of Manhattan, came a summary of the case against a Jewish Army: "I have never been able to accept the doctrine that establishing a Jewish Army or making Palestine a Jewish sovereign state would solve the Jewish problem. . . . Problems of human maladjustments are not solved at a distance or by proxy. If solved at all, they are solved in the places where they arise and by the persons most affected...
Will someone tell me just what Churchill means? In the Atlantic Charter he said ". . . they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them...
...patient work, the picture was clear and complete, Washington acted. On June 30, 1942 U.S. Ambassador to Chile Claude G. Bowers presented a 20-page memorandum to the Chilean Government which suggested politely that the existence of such a spy network was not only a violation of Chilean sovereign rights as a neutral but a menace to the entire Western Hemisphere...