Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completely control "disarmament. . . demilitarization . . . related fields of scientific research . . . reparations . . . the Ruhr . . . decartelization . . . displaced persons and refugees . . . protection, prestige and security of the occupying forces . . . foreign affairs . . . foreign trade and exchange . . ." In these fields, the three-power agreement provides, on French insistence, that any high commissioner can exercise a veto. The high commissioners may also take a hand in any other matter if they consider it "essential to security or to preserve democratic government in Germany...
Unimpressed, the committee voted to put the Mindszenty case on the agenda. The Assembly, not continually hamstrung by veto,* was thus free to fulfill what was perhaps its most important function-to act as the voice of the world's conscience...
...also decided to pass the buck for rent control back to the home folks. Led by Arkansas' Democrat Bill Fulbright, it voted a bill extending federal control for 15 months, but permitting any state, county, city or village government to vote out rent control locally, subject to the veto of state governors. All that was needed to finish the job was to iron out the conflicts between the Senate and House bills...
...agreement on the choice of this neutral cannot be reached, the U.S. may ask U.N. to appoint one. If the commission, once set up, still fails to reach agreement, the U.S. can, of course, always go to U.N.'s Security Council-and there run up against the Russian veto. This was the peace to which 18 months ago Jeeves had so grandly guided the nations...
...East. Selfish and insular Bavaria speaks most clownishly through the separatist Bayernpartei. Its leader, squat, jowly Josef Baumgartner, sums up his creed: "Every German state should be given veto power like that in the U.N." One C.S.U. leader has remarked: "A separatist's happiest dream is somebody to be named Bavarian ambassador in Bern, but the truth is none of them has brains enough to be a vice consul in Venezuela...