Word: government
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Javanese empire eight centuries ago, it was written that a white man would come one day to Indonesia. He would stay to rule the islands many years. Then, for the three-year "life of a hen," a yellow man would reign. And after those three years, the people would govern themselves...
When you hear such expressions as "So mote it be" (signifying approval); "Called from labor to refreshment": "Take due notice and govern yourselves accordingly"; and that gem that Blackstone loved and quoted in his Commentaries, "From a time whence the memory of man runneth not to the contrary"; you may well know that the persons who use them are members of "That Ancient and Honorable Institution of Freemasons that has outlived the fortunes of kings and the mutations of empires...
...Wildest Luxury." He told correspondents in Rome that UNRRA fell far short of meeting Europe's needs. But, said he, the fault was not UNRRA's. He blamed the governments of nations which "still have what to the famished people of liberated Europe must seem like the wild est sort of luxury." And these govern ments were not living up to their commitments. Describing the complete con fusion into which UNRRA's supply posi tion had fallen, Lehman said: "Availabilities change hour by hour and it is now practically impossible to plan any long-range program...
...Trusteeship Council for dependent territories is guided by a statement of principles recognizing the paramount interests of the governed. The administering power is pledged to develop self-govern ment (but not necessarily independence) in trust territories. These guarantees are only theoretical - the Council as yet has no territories to protect - but the beginning is promising...
SHAEF, the long wartime partnership of U.S. and British armed forces, was dissolving, to be replaced by the joint control plan, wherein each power would govern its own occupation zone...