Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London thought that Moscow would drive hard for a Japan Control Council on the German one-power veto model. When Ambassador Harriman saw Stalin at his Sochi resort, the Generalissimo brushed off the Balkans and the bomb to concentrate on the Far East. The U.S. would scarcely give in to the Russian proposals on Japan, but the delegation that left this week was determined to try all paths to agreement...
Zonal lines tripped Germany's life at every point. Occupiers and occupied were disgusted. Only the French insisted that zonal administration should not be modified until they had an answer on their proposal to internationalize the Ruhr; used their veto power in the Allied Control Council in Berlin to make their obstructionism stick...
Last week President Truman revealed U.S. official impatience by proposing an end of the one-power veto on the Control Council...
...immediate objective was not revolution or even reform; it sought veto positions from which it could threaten with desertion any cabinet whose foreign policy seemed to oppose Soviet Russia...
...unity" reached the point where the Communists sat down with democratic parties to draft a new constitution and found no drastic differences in their proposals for a fundamental law. The Communists, indeed, opposed a Gaullist plan to strengthen the executive power. This, too, was a part of the Communist veto position...