Word: abstentionism
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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...
The Buffalo Evening News cried that the calling of the strike marked a "day of infamy," and Mayor Bernard J. Dowd denounced the "open revolt against the Government." Leftwingers joyfully applauded the teachers' "militancy." All such talk seemed to distress the teachers. They disliked even the word "strike," and...
Double Abstention. Last week when the A.E.C. considered actual enforcement of international atomic controls, a much more serious difficulty reared its head. The report said: "The international control authority will require broad privileges of movement and inspection, including rights to conduct surveys by ground and air ... to determine what areas...
What Is a Veto? The prolonged argument over details and phrasing which led up to the final resolution added some weight to a growing and wholesome precedent: that an abstention is not a veto. During the recent Assembly meeting Russia's Vishinsky had argued that an abstention is a...
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, busily engaged in Big Four conferences in the U.S., was well aware of the uneasiness at home and the embarrassing abstention of nearly a third of Labor M.P.s on a vote for his support. Gossiped craggy W. J. Brown, Independent M.P. and regular London Evening Standard...