Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This argument, and thus the entire discussion of international control, concerns three points in the UN plan: 1) control by the Commission with no veto on majority decisions; 2) establishment of control by "stages," with destruction of existing atomic weapons as the final "stage"; 3) management and operation of all atomic energy production facilities the world by the Commission. These points are basically those asked by Bernard Baruch, speaking for the U.S. in 1946, and originally requested by the Acheson-Lilienthal report earlier that year...
Russia, on the other hand, says that the Commission recommendations on possible action should be funneled through the Security Council--where the veto is in force. The Soviet plan calls for immediate destruction of all atomic bomb stockpiles, before international control goes into operation, and periodic inspection of production facilities, with punishments for violations to be administered by the country in which the violation occurs...
...provider for Japan's deficits, the U.S. taxpayer would benefit financially if Japan could resume her oldtime brisk trade with the Chinese mainland. ¶Communist China will inevitably apply for China's seat on the United Nations Security Council. What would the U.S. then do-use the veto, which it scorns in Russian hands, to keep the representatives of 450 million people from the only forum of international discussion? The arguments on the other side were as strong, or stronger...
...been trying to get Correspondent Andrew Roth into Japan. Roth, an ex-naval officer who was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of espionage conspiracy (TIME, June 18, 1945) and later cleared, had been accredited as a correspondent by the National Military Establishment. MacArthur then exercised his veto power to turn Roth down, gave no reason for his decision...