Word: veto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abandon his grab for Laotian territory, and to withdraw most of his support for the Pathet Laos claims. In exchange, Mendès accepted Communist Poland as a member of the three-nation supervisory commission agreed that major decisions should be by unanimous vote, thus yielding the Communists a veto...
...fight to seat Red China in the Security Council, said Dulles, the U.S. has an effective weapon: the veto. However, the argument may be made that the question of who sits in China's Security Council seat is a procedural one, unlike the "substantive" issue of admitting a new country, and therefore not subject to the veto. Dulles anticipated this reasoning by saying that the U.N.'s tests of eligibility are directed to the performance of governments. Therefore, the admission of new governments is just as substantive as the admission of new countries. The U.S. can veto...
...veto-less General Assembly, the situation is more complex. The U.N. Charter requires a two-thirds vote for passage of "important questions." Said Dulles: "Anybody that does not think this is an important matter is exercising a curious judgment...
...Guns. Both had been moderately successful songwriters individually and admirers of each other's work. Both could write both words and music. A large part of their collaboration, they discovered after getting together, turned on a spontaneous veto-rule: one of them would suggest an idea for a lyric or hum a snatch of melody; if the other actively opposed it, out it went without argument. Some days, when working to a deadline, they might draft all but the last eight bars of a song, and each go home to dream up his own solution. After that, a song...
...will be to find something the French Assembly will accept and other member nations of EDC will not reject. Possible Gallic compromise: ratify the EDC treaty, but with two reservations in added protocols-that "unanimity of vote" should be required for the first five years (thus giving France a veto on any action it dislikes) and an escape clause allowing France to get out after ten years. At least Mendès is the first French Premier to set a deadline on submitting the EDC proposals to the Assembly for a yes or no vote...