Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Action must come from the General Assembly where the Soviet Union has no veto power, and where the bald imperialism and totalitarianism of Russia will be exposed to nations everywhere...
...unusual voting alignment, the Soviet Union joined the U.S. in supporting this proposal, which drew five other Security Council votes. Britain cast its first U.N. veto, and France joined to thwart the resolution. A later Russian proposal based upon the U.S. plan but without Lodge's backing also went down before the two vetoing powers...
...Russians have an additional 10,000 Japanese P.W.s). Russia promised to hand over the Habomai and Shikotan islands "at the conclusion of the peace treaty," a date that Russia can postpone as she wishes. The only real political concession the Russians were prepared to make was not to veto Japan's next bid for U.N. membership but the wily Bulganin later took some of the gilt off this piece of gingerbread by telling newsmen at an embassy party that he "couldn't guarantee that some other country might not veto Japan...
...Shepilov balked at reviving the point of international control. There was little more to be said, so just before midnight the council came to the vote. Nine delegates voted for all the Anglo-French resolution, but Shepilov, with Yugoslavia's Koca Popovic for company, cast Russia's veto against the section calling for international control. The result: the council endorsed only the "six principles" as the basis for further efforts to find a real solution to the conflicting needs of the Suez Canal's users and its Egyptian confiscators...
...resolution introduced by the British and French, calling for Egypt's acceptance of last August's 18-nation plan for international operation of the canal. But that had already been rejected by Egypt and by Russia and was therefore probably doomed to die under Russia's veto. Even the U.S., though Dulles promised to vote for the resolution, was plainly without confidence in it ; there was still no decisive unanimity between the American and the Anglo-French diplomats on the steps that ought to be taken...