Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy. It was of a piece with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall plan in that it was coldly directed against Russia's power, obstructionism and delay. What Marshall said was simply this: after two years of operation, U.N., because of Russia's paralyzing use of the veto power, is a complete sham. Now the U.S., by an appeal to the world's conscience and to the world's small powers, is going to try to make it work. To lay the groundwork for his main attack, Marshall went rapidly and accusingly over old and persistent...
Secretary Marshall's proposal for a special committee to study the limitation of the veto, we feel, offers world federalists-and delegations of the UN who intended to introduce the question the opportunity to point out that other mere limitation of the veto is not sufficient and that other amendments are needed those that will give the UN powers of government. Vishinsky's reply is discouraging in that it indicates, perhaps, Russian reaction to a proposal for world government. But if we are to have a showdown, let the issue be squarely presented. Let us form a world government with...
...people finally took their places in the Hall at Flushing Meadow, there would be 62 items on the agenda, ranging from the adoption of a U.N. flag to the question of global prostitution. There would be all the old headaches-Palestine, Greece, the Indians in South Africa, disarmament, the veto, the Balkans -and a few new ones...
...United Nations, sweet reasonableness would supplant power as the keystone of world diplomacy, Mr. Vishinsky's petulant outburst before the General Assembly must have been quit a shock. The provocation for all the sound and fury, Secretary Marshall's proposals for circumventing the Security Council and the veto in certain instances, were logically constructed to increase the effectiveness of U.N.'s authority; and the recommendations were backed by overwhelming support from world opinion as measured in the General Assembly...
...weaken her power position. Deplorable, perhaps, but rather inevitable. From 1917 to 1933, actually to 1941, Russia was a pariah nation. Except for her satellites, she stands alone among a U.N. membership that proffers at least verbal homage to the ideology of the western democracies. To Russia the veto power is an indispensable protection against U.N. actions which would be undesirable from the Russian point of view...