Word: baruchly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greatest Step? In the clearest terms he had yet used, Bernard Baruch told A.E.C. why the U.S. would not yield its atomic know-how unless the control plan included specific guarantees against veto protection for violators. Baruch said that the A.E.C. recommendations would "die aborning" unless "all of the great powers" on the Council accepted them. He added: "It has been said that if a great nation decided to violate a treaty, no agreements, however solemn, will prevent such violation; that if a great nation does not have the right to release itself from its obligation by veto the result...
Only Gromyko, whose shrewd, stubborn in-fighting for Russian views was rewarded this week by a promotion to Deputy Foreign Minister, publicly and directly questioned Baruch's interpretation. Said he: "What the representative of the U.S. proposes actually is a revision of the [U.N.] Charter. The fact that the American proposal provides for a voluntary relinquishment of the so-called 'veto' . . . does not change the situation." But this was a milder Soviet objection than many previous ones...
Behind the scenes, such thoroughly anti-Russian nations as Britain, Canada and The Netherlands have recently made known their displeasure at U.S. inflexibility. Last week Baruch realized that only two other nations, Australia and Brazil, were still with him in his demand for an immediate showdown...
Sitdown Walkout. At last, Baruch accepted a Canadian amendment to send the report back to a working committee with instructions to pay due heed to the U.S. "principles," but to bring the phrasing into harmony with the Assembly's disarmament resolution-a document which does not mention punishment or vetoes. The vote in favor was 10-to-0. Poland abstained; Russia's Gromyko did not even "abstain"-in the technical sense. He simply said: "I am not taking part in this discussion." This was a walkout lacking only the physical act, a sort of sitdown walkout...
...that Baruch had come down off his mountain, maybe Gromyko would come down...