Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giving up its delaying action against Red China and accepting universality, do much to regain the prestige it has lost. Especially among the numerous small Afro-Asian nations, who now control the bulk of voting strength in the General Assembly, last week's actions of the big powers, throwing vetos at each other to keep various applicants out, evoked little sympathy. Since the veto-less Assembly has now assumed authority over all important UN decisions except membership, and since the U.S. has repudiated its stand against new members, Washington has little to lose by asking the Security Council to abolish...
...approve a plan to reapportion its seats. At present, sparsely populated counties, with 12% of the people, mostly in the north, elect 20 of the 38 ,state senators. Collins was criticized for not "forcing" the legislators to go along by using his patronage power and his right to veto bills for local improvements. Instead, he continues to preach reapportionment as a necessity of tomorrow's Florida. Says Collins: "It takes a gradual shaping of public opinion to win the really big fights." Although he has not publicly said so. he would like another term. The state Supreme Court will...
...justification of its veto threat, the Chiang Government claims that Outer Mongolia is not only a fraud and puppet of Soviet Russia, but also a part of China and hence subject to the control of the Nationalists when the day of return to the mainland finally comes. Yet the claim seems to have little basis in legal fact. For the Nationalist Government of China recognized the independence of Outer Mongolia at the end of the war and established diplomatic relations with...
...admitted in the "package deal" would be willing to vote to seat Communist China, and thus promote the "two China" sentiment which is growing so rapidly in Washington and at the UN. Every step forward for Communist China is a step backward, economically and politically, for the Nationalists. The veto is a calculated risk to dynamite acceptance of Red China by the world body...
...last two weeks, Chiang has been holding his veto menacingly over the UN; this week the chance to use it will come. While Nationalist China would probably not be ejected from the General Assembly or from her permanent seat on the Security Council if she uses the veto, her loss of prestige and political bargaining power will certainly encourage the recognition of Communist China. Thwarting the expressed will of the other members of the United Nations in such a fashion is hardly the way for the Nationalist Government to support its pretensions to the role of a responsible world power...