Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ball was far from satisfied. Next day he proposed an amendment to ERP directing the President to begin immediate negotiations with "whatever members of the U.N. will join [us] in an agreement establishing a supreme council without the veto power . . . which could act to stop aggression...
...privately he often talked convincingly as if that was where he wanted to find himself. But whenever he opened his mouth to deliver one of the messages prepared by Clifford, the President talked like a New Dealer. And Adviser Clifford was kept busy scribbling. He wrote the tax vetoes; the Taft-Hartley veto; the October 1947 call for a special session; the State of the Union message last January; this year's Jackson Day dinner speech and the civil-rights message. There was no real difference between what these messages said and what a generation of New Dealers...
...wanting to keep Harry Truman off the ballot. They wanted to insure their own re-election at home. And they hoped to gather enough power in the party to restore the two-thirds rule at their national convention-a rule which for 100 years had given them a virtual veto power over presidential candidates...
...Council veto, had been trying to build up U.N.'s effective scope. Specifically, it had tried to increase the authority of the U.N. Assembly. The Assembly, under hysterical U.S. leadership, had made the decision to partition Palestine...
There was as much authority for this position in the U.N. Charter as there was for Russian abuse of the veto. But up to now it had been the Russians who widened the Charter's loopholes...