Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commercial interests are so concerned with practicalities, they might well calculate the damage a Palestine debacle would do to the United Nations. A speedy, well-policed partition would enhance its prestige immeasurably, while a week policy will turn the U.N. into little more than a watery organization for completely sovereign nations. The United Nations is on the block today, but the statesmen still refuse to enforce partition. They pray for a last minute reconciliation between Jews and Arabs. Reconciliation is hopeless...
...year-old Prime Minister Don Stephen ("Jungle John") Senanayake hauled the old Lion flag to its place atop the Temple of the Tooth.* By a peaceful act of Britain's Parliament, Ceylon-like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire, India and Pakistan-had become a sovereign dominion of the British Commonwealth...
...Hope. He sees no hope in U.N. as it is now, calling it "a weak league of sovereign, armed states preparing for war." As his ideas took shape, he framed a program. He wants: 1) an agreement among all nations to surrender their arms to U.N., retaining only a force big enough to keep internal order; 2) a U.N. police force to defend all nations from aggression; and 3) an Assembly acting as the world's chief legislative body, with a Security Council acting as a Cabinet...
...tried to commit suicide to escape trial (TIME, Sept. 24, 1945) did not now try to save his neck. His sovereign, Emperor Hirohito, was not to blame for anything, said Tojo. At the meeting during which the General Staff presented its first war plans, "His Majesty was pleased to listen . . . although not uttering a single word. . . . The responsibility of defeat devolves on myself as Premier...
Until then, the U.S. wanted U.N. to understand a couple of things: it was not questioning the rights of full-time working newsmen, but it had not "yielded up its sovereign rights to challenge the bona fides of any alien journalist*... to investigate, to hold hearings and to deport . . . if the circumstances warrant...