Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promised to put Secretary Benson on the grill in January. But Louisiana's Senator Allen Ellender, who will head the Senate Agriculture Committee, is committed to giving flexible supports a chance to work and, in any event, the Congress is not likely to override a presidential farm bill veto...
...five weeks ago, Russia's Vishinsky quickened a few U.N. pulses by hinting that Russia might agree to a British-French plan for a step-by-step suppression of nuclear weapons. To U.S. experts, Vishinsky's seeming concession still looked like a plan with a built-in veto against thorough inspection-and the stalemate continued. Last week in the U.N. Political Committee, India's Krishna Menon rose to comment: "Let us decide this matter once...
...control, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky notified the Security Council that the Soviet Union "takes cognizance" of the Trieste agreement as one that "will promote . . . normal relations . . . and thus contribute toward a relaxation of tension." In his last words on the subject a year ago, Vishinsky had vowed to veto exactly such a solution, which replaced the peace-treaty provision for U.N.-directed internationalization. The abrupt about-face caught Italy's Reds flatfooted. On the day Vishinsky blessed the Trieste arrangement, Red Deputies in Italy's Chamber called it an "Atlantic sellout...
...Veto Limitations...
This country, therefore should vote for a review conference in 1955, and if measures to limit the veto receive widespread support, the US should back them. Certain limitations such as the Vandenberg resolutions, in 1948 which would have outlawed the veto on questions of membership or the peaceful settlement of disputes, are desirable and would have a reasonable chance of passage in the senate. And a decision to abolish the veto would probably not affect the United States, for this country has always had enough supporters on the Security Council never to need the device. The USSR, on the other...