Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Political & Security Committee went issues like George Marshall's proposals for a year-round "Little Assembly," the veto, and independence for Korea, and Andrei Vishinsky's demand for measures "against propaganda and the inciters of a new war." Last week the committee waded into the U.S. motion to charge Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria with threatening Greece, and to send an Assembly peace-watch to the Balkans. Cried Andrei Gromyko in good voice: "A Fascist clique is hatching plans...
...Security Council found time to meet, too. They were called on to decide whether Italy and other former Axis satellites should now be recommended for U.N. membership. Andrei Gromyko said he would not veto Italy this time, provided Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Finland were admitted...
...Security Council been paralyzed by Russian "noes"? The U.S. proposed to limit the veto rights of all the Great Powers-by eliminating the veto itself from procedural questions and applications for membership to which it now applied. From Yalta on, the U.S. had based its U.N. hopes on essential big-power agreement in the Security Council. Now, to stave off complete U.N. paralysis, the U.S. was ready to give the 55-nation Assembly a stronger voice in world affairs...
...none of his speeches did Bob Taft become excited or overheated. He charged Harry Truman with abuse of the veto power and with refusal to cooperate with Congress. He blamed him for high prices and for continuance of high wartime taxes. He said that Congress would pass no major social-welfare legislation until 1949 because it could not trust the Truman Administration to put it into effect. He said all this in a tone which assumed that his audience was made up of reasonable people, who therefore agreed with...
...also, as usual, gave frank, personal opinions on controversial issues: he approved a United Nations plan for partition of the Holy Land with Jewish and Arab states. He came out for abolition of the veto in the Security Council, provided a satisfactory definition of aggression were written into the charter. In odd moments, despite his full and exacting schedule, he found time to prepare his speech on foreign policy for this week's appearance at Tacoma, Wash...