Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herbert V. Evatt, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia, last night carried his two-year old battle against the Security Council "veto" onto the stage of Sanders Theatre...
...first of three 1947 Oliver Wendall Holmes lectures, Evatt described the Dumbarton Oaks conference and the changes in the U.N. Charter made at San Francisco, harking back at several points, however, to the great powers' veto which he termed "one of the great problems that is confronting...
...leaders in organized labor's fight to halt final enactment of the bill, Pressman last June submitted an outlined interpretation of the Taft-Hartley law to Congress, in an effort to rally support for an impending Presidential veto...
...correspondents): "Will the Soviet Union [agree] to curtail the use of the veto...
...avoid it, he prescribes internationalism-a U.N. with Russia counted out: "The veto must be abandoned. ... It is the dictatorship of one nation ruled by one man. That kind of U.N. cannot save democracy. Stalin is not yearning to save democracy. . . . Russia will employ it as a weapon to divide and ultimately crush the democracies. . . . The U.N. is not an international government. It must be remade to become one. It is very likely that the moment the nations begin reshaping the U.N. they will be on the way to an international government without Russia...