Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freedom of discussion was at the heart of the veto issue. The Russians wanted to interpret the veto so that one power could shut off discussion even in the Security Council. At this point Stettinius took his stand and saved the conference. He told Molotov, in a formal note, that the U.S. would sooner have no charter at all than one with this restriction. Meanwhile, Harry Hopkins in Moscow put it up to Stalin. The Russians gave...
...Burmese delegates came aboard from a motor launch. With the exception of one Burman, who wore formal morning dress, the delegates wore gay silk lungyis and scarlet headdresses. At the head of the green baize wardroom table sat Burma's governor, Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, whom the Japanese had chased out of Burma. Now he was back. Back too was Premier Sir Paw Tun, whom the Japanese had also chased out. Near him sat bland, ambitious, influential U Than Tun, general secretary of the Communist-dominated Anti-Fascist Organization. Sayadaw Aletawaya, 90, head of the Buddhist church, sent...
...seeing this three-quarter-page advertisement by the Communists last summer in papers all over the country, in which Earl Browder says: "The time is more than ripe for the United States to insist that the Chungking Government shall put its house in order with a real, not a .formal, unification of all Chinese fighting forces...
Russia lost "face," but allayed world suspicion by accepting an interpretation broadening the Yalta veto formula (which Franklin Roosevelt had proposed in the first place). Under the agreed interpretation, any one of the Big Five keeps the right to veto any formal investigation or action by the new world organization's Security Council. But no one member can veto simple discussion of an issue, as Russia had previously wanted. Discussions in the Security Council will be permitted whenever any seven of the eleven members so vote...
After the signing, the four-power Allied Control Council was in formal existence, and its over-all plan for the control of Germany was released to the world. But not much had happened: the Council did not even begin to function, and some sections of the plan, written when the occupation was more of a prospect than a fact, already seemed out-of-date...