Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are powers in the world we fear more than the Colossus. He is, after all, our Colossus. Besides, if he becomes predatory, as he used to be, we now have the world organization to appeal to. Not that it will do much good-the Colossus has his veto. But there is the Assembly. And moral suasion. And in our little spats with each other, there is the Court...
Asked a reporter: did Harry Hopkins' visit to Moscow result in the solution of the veto question at San Francisco...
...took the Big Five twelve hectic San Francisco days to agree on an interpretation of the Yalta veto formula (TIME, June 18). In just half that time they made the Little Forty-five take-but not like-the Big Power version. The accompanying scrap gave San Francisco its liveliest week, portrayed world attitudes and worries in plain folks' language...
...Forest. Mexico's Alfonso Garcia Robles averred that the right of any one of the Big Five to veto Security Council action created "a system of order in the forest which will keep the mice in order, but not the lions...
Said L'Epoque: "We see signs of a sudden and large improvement in international relations. We learn that the 'Big Three' have agreed on the veto rights, that we are now on the way 'to a solution of the Polish question' and lastly, in big print, that 'Russia is siding with the Anglo-Americans.' . . . International harmony returns with the decline of France and perhaps this decline was the price paid for it. We personally think that Iphigenia was not exactly in favor of being sacrificed and we are not so angelic...