Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This kind of support was considerably more important to U.N.'s future than Russian abuse of the veto. (Last week the U.S.S.R. cast its tenth veto, this time to shield satellite Albania from blame for blowing up two British destroyers...
...practical purposes Russia has never accepted the fundamental theory of U.N. She has declined to join any of U.N.'s most important specialized agencies (e.g., UNESCO, the World Bank, Refugee, Labor, Food and Agricultural Organizations). She has used U.N. as a debating society, and manipulated her veto power to play power politics...
...last convulsive protest, the Democratic minority warningly predicted a presidential veto of the bill. But the G.O.P. was unmoved. With 18 Democrats joining 46 Republicans, the Senate approved the measure. It summarily outlaws the nearly $6 billion pending suits for back travel and makeready time, and makes illegal for the future all such claims not covered by "custom" or contract. It also relieves employers of any liability for back damages as long as they were acting in "good faith" at the time...
...first official act was to void the appointment of 21 state officers installed by Hummon. Then he began looking over the laws, including the white-primary bill, which Hummon had got the legislature to pass. When it was rumored that M. E. might veto the white-primary bill, the word got to the legislature. At week's end, the legislators quietly adjourned the session without passing the 3% sales-tax bill that would pay for M. E.'s road, hospital, education and old-age benefit program. A new legislature would not convene until after the general election...
...worked with Greek Intelligence during the war, criticized arguments that the entire Balkan issue be turned over to the United Nations. Saddled with a problem too great for it to handle, that organization might be destroyed while still in its infancy. He cited recent Soviet use of the veto in the Albanian case as proof of U.N. weakness. Predicting that the death of Premier Stalin might result in the rise to power of a "Hitler-like" Russian, Professor Dow opined that unlike pre-war Germany, the Soviet Union is unable to wage an effective aggressive...