Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breathing fire like a paper dragon, Nationalist China still plans to use her veto for the first time in ten years in order to block the admission of 18 new members to the United Nations. This decision is known to have been taken despite two direct appeals from President Eisenhower to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. It has been taken, moreover, in the face of the clear wish of virtually every other country in the UN that the 18 new members, including Outer Mongolia, be admitted to the world organization...
This unexpected action seems to sidetrack effectively the NCC's minority which was prepared to veto any name change--thus blocking the merger. With a two-thirds majority needed to make the NCC the "Young Conservative Club," it was doubtful if Brady could have succeeded in the merger...
...reached. Dulles and Molotov, meeting privately, agreed to new membership in the United Nations for 17 nations, four of them Communist. The package deal, in which Britain and France concurred, would break nine years of deadlock and increase U.N. membership from 60 to 77. Russia promised not to veto the West's list: Austria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal and Spain. In return, the U.S. would not veto the Russian candidates: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. The U.S. also, agreed to abstain on Outer Mongolia, but counted on this barren Soviet outpost...
...their fight for control of the Republican State Central Committee. Knight won hands down, installing his men both as chairman and vice chairman, largely because many of the committee members are appointed by state legislators who are notoriously sensitive to the governor's patronage and his veto power over their pet bills. Since then, it has been generally taken for granted that "Goodie" Knight could do much as he liked with the State Central Committee, and especially that he would have its overwhelming support in a contest with Nixon, for President or anything else. Last week, however, a survey...
Perhaps the basic reason behind Washington's three year delay is the fear of souring the smiles emanating from the Soviet Union. An attempt in a review conference to remove the veto power, for instance, could only antagonize the Soviets. Three years is a long time to wait, however, for a clarification of world politics. If the Soviet sun keeps shining for another year, a review conference should surely not upset any real change in Soviet attitude. And if the sunshine is only an illusion anyway, a review conference would only reveal already existing differences between East and West...