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...Sovereign rights" should be "restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them...
...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...
...appropriated $46.9 billion. . . . Contracts let came to only $21 billion; and the sums disbursed - for war goods received - came to $7 billion. After a little over one year ... we have succeeded in ... diverting a pitiful few per cent of our national income to the job of maintaining our sovereign strength. And only about $100,000,000 worth of the supplies were lend-lease goods that could help England...
...demanded population shifts, obscured somewhat by a century of expanding frontiers. The trend toward equilibrium is clear except for the period of about a century ago. The worsening equilibriums of 1840 (see chart), 1850 and 1860 reveal the underlying struggle between the concept of federation (homogeneity) and of the sovereign parts...
...Wood may make reply that his definitions are valid--are absolute--because his views are at present in general agreement with those of the majority of the American people, whose views, by democratic principle, must be accepted as sovereign. But he asks, in accordance with this self-asserted divinity, that opposition (such as the HSU) be eliminated--as "termites". After which painless extermination it is hard to see how the free discussion essential to democracy would exist. On what basis could Franklin D. Roosevelt or William M. Wood claim then to represent the beliefs of a majority of the people...