Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even after Jacob Malik leaves the president's chair this week (see above), he will be able to block the Security Council as a plain delegate from Soviet Russia, by using his veto power. For this reason, the U.S. last fortnight decided to put the question of Korea's future before the U.N. Assembly when it meets at Flushing in mid-September. Last week the word at Flushing was that the Assembly, not hamstrung by the veto, would probably recommend that the U.N. army in Korea 1) push beyond the 38th parallel, and 2) establish a unified regime...
...Jacob Malik's presence cast an ugly shadow over U.N. -and that behind the shadow lay the substance of Russia's threat of war. Jacob Malik and his bosses can still cause plenty of trouble at U.N. If a Russian satellite launched another aggression tomorrow, Malik could veto any Security Council action. To meet this possibility, the U.S. and other Western powers have planned with Trygve Lie to call an immediate meeting of the General Assembly if the Council is stymied by a Red veto. The Russians can also be relied on to exploit latent disagreements...
...Cruel? For most of the six months and 18 days while the Russians boycotted it, the Council had been an effective body. Members had bickered and procrastinated, but-freed of the Russian veto-they had again & again achieved basic agreement. When the North Koreans attacked, the Council took the most important action of its life (TIME, July 10), became the world's voice in denouncing the Communist aggressors...
...hours after President Truman's announcement that the U.S. would defend Korea, the Soviet press and officials were mum. Had they expected the U.S. move, they would have instructed Jacob Malik, their U.N. delegate, to take his seat at the Security Council and veto any U.N. action. When the Council convened, Malik was not there, and the U.S. gained the immense advantage of U.N. backing...
...wanted the governments to have more of a check on the new body. Said they: "If you try to push governments into the corner and ignore them, you will find that they turn into a group of brooding animals." But even the Dutch wanted to avoid a one-power veto. A likely solution: only a two-thirds vote of the member nations could override Monnet's supranational authority...