Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world map, but control of them could assure control of the whole western Pacific. The U.S. proposed a "strategic area" zone, where it could draw the curtains if it wanted to. Unstressed were two highly pertinent facts: 1) the U.S. was in possession; and 2) the U.S. could veto any unwelcome counterschemes...
...cause of De Gasperi's setback was of interest to France, Holland and all other countries where Communist voting strength is far from a majority but where Communist influence over labor unions gives the party a practical veto (by strike) over Government action. This is what happened in Italy...
...regime of law among nations, we must struggle to create a world in which no nation can arbitrarily impose its will upon another nation. Neither the United States nor any other state should have the power to dominate the world. . . . As a great power ... we have a responsibility, veto or no veto, to see that other states do not use force except in defense of law. The United States must discharge that responsibility...
...violations and evasions. ... If a nation by solemn treaty agrees to a plan for the control of atomic weapons, and agrees that a violation of that treaty shall be punished, it is difficult for me to understand why that nation cannot agree to waive the right to exercise the veto power should it be charged with
...Francisco, in Lake Success, we protest, as one voice, the veto. Yet each country, in its turn, reserves it for its own benefit, invoking intangible sovereignty. Are we going to build international democracy upon national dictatorship...