Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...significant than the stubborn Russian cynicism which deadlocked the Foreign Ministers' Council meeting last October. In technique the truculence ranged from espionage to open fighting; in principle it ranged from persistent denial of free speech to violation of treaties. It endangered the UNO charter by use of the veto (the first by any power) on a relatively trivial issue;, it endangered the preparation of the peace treaties by consistent refusal to make any concessions whatever...
...Crisis. At the core of UNO's first great test was, as many had predicted it would be, the Security Council's veto power. Russia's Vishinsky, in his best prosecutor's manner, had formally accused the British of endangering the peace by maintaining an army in Greece. Bevin had bellowed Britain's demand for clear acquittal of this charge. When it looked as though Bevin would win, Vishinsky threatened to use his veto...
Heretofore Russia has avoided such a stand like the plague; now Russia was on the record with a statement that undercut her super-sovereign interpretation of her UNO Security Council veto power...
Galling Integrity. The results were not yet conclusive-by good luck and good will, the Council so far had avoided that point of final decision, certain to be reached some day, when the as yet untried veto would enter. But that point had not been evaded at the cost of either integrity or action. The Council had been able to act, in a fashion galling to proud Russia, and to survive...
Staying? In its third week, UNO was already a town meeting of the world. This was largely due to U.S. insistence at San Francisco that the Big Power veto could not shut off discussion. UNO was already the focal point for issues that disturbed the world's peace-despite Russia's blunt insistence fortnight ago that nothing except the Big Three really mattered. Hope rose last week in London that it might grow from a forum to a town meeting in the effective New England sense...