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    "ocrText": "7 -\nElecthere there\nBut-ther of is yet another change -- perhaps the most\nmomentous of all -- giving shape to the patterns of tomorrow. Over\nP.6\n/\nthe past fifty years, a billion people have won their independence,\nand the number of sovereign nations in the world has doubled. But\nthe most important thing about this great emancipation movement is\nthat for the first time in the history of the world, the concept of equal-\nity among nations has come to be recognized as an operating principle\nof international politics. The acceptance of this principle is as yet\npartial and imperfect, but it is there, even among the cynical totali-\ntarians. The representatives of\ncountries sit in the General\nAssembly of the United Nations -- and each, by unanimous agreement\n--\nstands equal to all the others. Even the Soviet Union pays its respects\nto the expressed will of the majority of the members of the General\nAssembly. The old patterns of naked power politics have been modified\nso that right has at least and at all times a voice against might before the\nbar of world opinion.\nThis is an impressive gain over the conditions of fifty years\nago where small nations had only sufferance rights granted them by the\n5"
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