Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet vetoes have blocked nine states: Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Korea, Nepal, Portugal. Five Soviet satellite states-Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Outer Mongolia, Rumania-have failed to win a majority but the democratic nations have used no veto to bar them from membership...
...State Department has long urged a treaty; the Pentagon wants to go as long as possible without one, thus keeping U.S. occupation troops in Japan. One possible compromise: a peace conference with the U.S.'s allies (allowing Russia no veto), backed by a collateral agreement to maintain U.S. military bases at strategic locations away from the big cities after the occupation troops have sailed for home...
...Smacks Too Much." "It is no more than that," snapped Wisconsin's Republican Congressman Glenn R. Davis, 35, winner of nine battle stars in 3½ years' service with the Navy in the Pacific. Everyone knew, he went on, that the President would veto the bill and the veto would not be overriden. "It smacks too much of trying to show up the President," he said. "It will not be good politics to vote against the bill, but those of you who have been talking about economy . . . should...
...Allied High Commission for Germany last week gave two sharp slaps to Western Germany's Bonn government: HICOM vetoed two laws, one on civil service and one on income tax, which had been adopted by Bonn's Parliament. The veto on civil service seemed to make more sense than the other...
There are ways out of this mess. President Truman could veto the current bloated appropriation, but this is unlikely, since he has his constituents too. There must be a reorganization of the whole process of damming and dredging before the economy which Congress so cloquently embraces and so purposefully blocks will be possible. The first need is a system of "beneficiary repayments," under which the people who gain from water shifts will have to pay the cost. This is the system used by the Bureau of Reclamation, an executive agency, when it builds irrigation ditches for farmers. As the Hoover...