Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agree to renounce the use of atomic and hydrogen weapons." Vyacheslav Molotov was ready with seeming concessions. He accepted a Western disarmament point that atomic weapons, prior to prohibition, could be used for defense against aggression-but with the proviso that the U.N. Security Council (where Russia has a veto) is the sole arbiter of what constitutes an act of aggression...
...mocked Britain's maligned Upper House of Parliament (in lolanthe), Her Majesty's Lords have had less and less to do with the making of British law or policy. Back in 1911, testy Commoner David Lloyd George, with the help of his King, cut the Lords' veto power to a mere delaying action. Six years ago, even their right to delay was curtailed...
...determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war . . ." But when they got down to the details, the delegates proved to be hardheadedly nationalistic. The U.N. is universal, or is meant to be, and all nations "large & small" are assured of "equality"-but Big Power dominance (specifically, the veto) is built into the U.N.'s constitution. No nation gives up sovereignty to the U.N.; none would and none was asked. In deference to British wishes, the U.N. is specifically forbidden to intervene in matters which are "essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state." Mexico complained...
...Pocket Veto. In Billings, Mont., when charged with attempted theft, William F. Barraugh explained that he had forgotten to empty his pockets of the cheese, meat, sardines, avocado and bologna he had put there when he found the grocery store "too crowded to push a cart...
...Matthew Neely adjudged it "a majestic measure of humanity." Last week Congress also: ¶Passed. 409 to 1 in the House, unanimously in the Senate (and President Eisenhower signed), a new 8% postal pay-raise bill which corrects many of the "inequities" cited by the President in his veto of a higher, 8.8% bill (TIME, May 30). Annual cost: $164 million...