Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...YORK, October 25 -- Soviet Russia, displaying a new spirit of agreement, abandoned today a bitter battle to prevent a complete airing of the politically-hot veto question in the United Nations Assembly...
Shortly afterwards, the United Kingdom, first of the great powers to speak out since the general debate began yesterday, attacked Russia for her "reckless use" of the veto in the Security Council...
...Soviet Russia withdrew all opposition in the Assembly's steering committee to five items proposed for the agenda, three of them affecting the veto right of the five great powers...
...more than 200 pounds despite his five-foot-seven-inch stature, reputed as an outstanding blocker and backer-up. Sullivan, fullback of the 1942 eleven which crushed Boston College, 55 to 12, in the famous game that preceded the Cocoanut Grove disaster, shares honors at the bucking spot with Veto Kissel, of last year's Crusader eleven...
...other," said Secretary of State Byrnes in his recapitulation of the Paris Peace Conference. In time perhaps, the harshly discordant tone of West-15, East-6, which marked every refrain at the Conference, will become a sonorous harmony. The proposal by Australia and Cuba to eliminate the veto power of the Big Five on the Security council, the question of an International Refugee Organization, and the Russian plan for the dissemination of information on the armed forces of member nations in neutral countries, are controversial issues on which the still infant U.N. will continue to cut its teeth...