Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half of the normal two-year term and the Philippines for the second. Now, however, Kuznetsov, claiming that Russia had "made no promises" to observe the agreement, demanded that Communist Czechoslovakia be elected to replace Yugoslavia. If the Philippines should be elected, he warned, Russia would veto any proposal to add two seats to the eleven-man Security Council for Asian and Latin American powers...
...Charter in the dying months of World War II had no intention of establishing a world government. At the common insistence of the major powers-the U.S. and Britain were just as adamant as the U.S.S.R.-the U.N.'s founders wrote into its constitution not just the veto but a series of provisions intended to ensure that the U.N. would never infringe on the sovereignty of its members-or, at any rate, of its big members. The fruit of their calculating labors was an emasculated version of the American Continental Congress: an armless parliament...
...Charter." In the debate that followed, the U.N.'s familiar two-sided world came unstuck. Sobolev eagerly announced that "the Soviet delegation is prepared to vote in favor of the U.S. draft resolution . . ." When the vote came, Britain and France, the two historic allies of the U.S.. vetoed the U.S. proposal. It was Britain's first veto...
...despair, Yugoslavia's hard-voiced Joza Brilej told his colleagues: "We are faced with a situation . . . which is literally deteriorating by the minute." Then he persuaded the necessary minimum of seven Security Council members to vote for an emergency session of the 76-nation General Assembly, where the veto does not apply...
Even more surprising, the Administration hires a "Director of Dramatic Productions," who directs all the group's major productions, whether musicals, comedies, or dramas. In effect the director exercises a veto over productions, and last spring her refusal to direct Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman led to a rebel production sponsored by The Daily Pennsylvanian...