Word: abstentionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chairman Vishinsky was unmoved. He apologized for his earlier longwindedness, smiled: "I sinned, but who will cast the last stone?" Then he put the treaty to a vote, clause by clause. In 23 minutes, he whipped his boys (and Mme. Pauker) through the required 58 votes. Once, one of his...
To change the methods of such a vote after it has been completed is more than a simple alteration: it affects the nature of the vote. In any parliamentary group which needs a specific percentage of the total membership to pass a bill, an abstention is equivalent to a vote...
"Many people are at first sight suspicious of federal aid bills," President Conant told the Waldorf-Astoria conclave, but asserted that in the Taft measure--Senate Bill 472--"the abstention from any degree of federal control over the states is painstakingly detailed."
When Polish Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz got home from Moscow last week, fellow officials were waiting at the station. They thrust a bouquet of red carnations into his hands the moment the train screeched to a stop. . .The red posies were justified. Moscow had promised Cyrankiewicz a dazzling price for Poland...
All other deputies (80) abstained. Abstention by the Communists got them out of their embarrassing spot as partners in debate of the Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party. It was also a fairly safe move because last week the radio to Moscow developed bad static, and neither Communists nor anybody else...