Word: supra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.W.F. movement started in a bathtub, roughly speaking, some seven years ago. Harris Wofford, a student at an eastern high-school, heard Clarence Streit (author of "Union Now") over the radio, while bathing. Inspired by Streit's plea for a supra-national government, Wofford leaped out of the tub and proceeded to form an organization known as the Student Federalists. But it wasn't until after the San Francisco Conference in 1945 that the campaign for One World began to give off steam...
...ministers conduct their voting to reach decisions has not been settled. If they require a unanimous vote, no advance will have been made on the key sovereignty issue; but if they abide by a two-thirds or a majority vote, then there will be a supra-government among nations. For the consultative body, each nation will elect its delegates as it sees...
Successful government at any level, national or supra-national, requires a certain area of agreement among the governed. And Mr. Vishinsky demonstrated rather conclusively that up to now there has been no meeting of minds between the leading citizens of Washington and Moscow. The successful functioning of a supra-national government also requires the existence of supra-national loyalties, which are not present except to a very limited degree...
...Nations armed force, appeared in Tuesday's papers neatly juxtaposed with a tailor-made of the need for a Force: the story of the plot against the French government. This melodramatic plan thus highlighted one of the most heartening moves in recent months in the direction of an autonomous supra-national authority in world affairs...
...says Mann, in one of his ecstatic outbursts, "is the most beautiful, austerest, blithest, most sacred symbol of all supra-reasonable human striving for ... truth and fullness" but it is also "only one humanistic discipline among others; all of them, philosophy, jurisprudence, medicine, theology, even the natural sciences and technology . . . are only variations ... of one and the same high and interesting theme...