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Word: vetoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single issue-the veto-kept the Big Five in almost continuous session last week in San Francisco. They were not debating a proposed charter change. The Yalta agreement on the veto was considered inviolate. But the U.S., Britain, China and France wanted to issue an "interpretation" of the veto agreement which would go a small way toward meeting the small nations' objections to it. Russia stuck to the letter of the bond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONFERENCE: Worry | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...could forbid action by the Security Council except on "procedural matters." What was a "procedural matter"? The Russians looked at the Dumbarton Oaks draft of a world charter and found two sections labeled "Procedure." They said that matters (mostly inconsequential) dealt with in those sections were excepted from the veto-and that nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONFERENCE: Worry | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...happened there,, even though France objected. If Syria then asked the Council to act on the result of its investigation and France objected, the Council would not be able to act. In the Anglo-American view, the Council would hear the Syrians but could not investigate over the French veto. If the Russians' interpretation prevailed, the Syrians would not even be permitted in the Council room if the French said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONFERENCE: Worry | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...Little. Through the discussion ran the conflict between the world organization's General Assembly, which the little nations will dominate, and the Security Council, where the Big Powers with their veto will run the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Why It Is So Tough | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...delegate to San Francisco. This was the reason that provision for an international office of education, originally agreed upon by the Big Four, was talked out of the United Nations charter. The Congressmen at the conference were afraid their colleagues back in Washington might consider it a cultural boondoggle, veto the whole charter because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brains across the Sea | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

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