Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veto. In some important respects, most of the small states were willing to delegate to the central organization more sovereign power than the large nations would give up. The U.S. and Russia were the only two nations which conceivably could fight the rest of the world even for a time, and these two relied for their security more upon their own armed might than upon collective action. This disparity was the origin of "the Yalta agreement on Security Council voting procedures," which for three weeks had been the key San Francisco issue...
...agreed at Yalta, the Security Council could not act if one of the Big Powers said no. Russia insisted on retaining this veto because it feared that the majority of nations on the Council would be basically unfriendly. The U.S. also wanted the veto; few politicians believed that the charter could pass the Senate without it. Critics of the veto said that it would make U.N.C.I.O. helpless in all disputes involving great powers or their friends. Veto advocates contended it was better to bow to realities than to pretend that the great powers could be covered by the world organization...
There was never any chance that the veto would be dropped or greatly modified. Realizing this, the critics asked only that the Council be empowered to investigate a dispute, and to recommend a peaceful settlement (without taking any further action), despite the veto of a Great Power. The U.S. and Britain might be willing to make these concessions if Moscow would go along...
Historic Insistence. Last week the U.S. and its immediate sphere were involved in hot debate. The question: whether the Pan American system erected by the U.S. and its Latin American neighbors should be subject to the .world Security Council, and through the Council to the veto power of any Big Five member...
...what areas are to come under trusteeship would be left until later. Only non-strategic territories-if any-would be subject to world supervision in the new General Assembly. Strategic areas would be handled by individual powers responsible to the Security Council, where the Big Powers could exercise their veto power at will. In the final analysis, they could handle their strategic charges as they...