Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yielded on two hotly disputed points, and developments came thick and fast. Since October 29, the Assembly had been bogged down in a fruitless discussion of disarmament and atomic control. Russia had championed the publication of armament statistics but had opposed an inspection system or the abrogation of the veto in matters concerning disarmament. Exactly why the Soviet delegation about-faced is not clear, and all sorts of motives from the most base to the most noble have been advanced; but on November 29 Mr. Molotov agreed to an international arms inspection, and five days later came out in favor...
Hypochondriac purists will still have a large supply of pessimistic dismay and insomnia to keep them happy, for the first United Nations meeting on American soil dealt inadequately or not at all with many international sore spots. Franco Spain received only a routine rebuke; the veto is still too powerful a weapon in U.N. procedure; and trusteeship questions are still undecided. But the credits outweigh the debits, and the recent General Assembly Session may have charted a road on which nations can travel together in peace...
Just a Misunderstanding. Last fortnight the talk on disarmament had got to the point where everyone agreed that international inspection and control were necessary. But Russia's Andrei Vishinsky had insisted on holding a veto against the day-to-day activities of the inspectors (TIME, Dec. 9). This seemed more political than practical. If a couple of U.N. inspectors were headed one morning for, say, Magnitogorsk, and Russia vetoed the trip, the action would indicate guilt almost as clearly as if a violation had been detected. The U.S. proposed that the Security Council be instructed to draw up treaties...
...question of the veto will have no relevance to the work of the control commissions. It is wrong, therefore, to allege that any state possessing the veto may nullify the implementation of control and inspection...
Molotov said that trouble over the veto, in this instance, had been due to "misunderstanding." But obviously his new attitude was a vast improvement over Vishinsky's stand of the previous week. Of course Russia still can, and probably will, make plenty of trouble over the formulation of treaties...