Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine and one half years between the San Francisco signing land this Saturday, tremendous interpretive changes have been made without altering the structure of the present Charter. The General Assembly's "uniting for peace" resolution in 1950, for example, made it impossible for a Security Council veto permanently to block recommendations for collective action. Through resolutions such as this, originating in the Assembly, many of the most critical faults in the veto system can at least be partially overcome. But since the veto will still be the major topic in a charter review conference, it may be asked whether revision...
There are many who claim that the United Nations can never be an effective agency for keeping the peace unless the veto is completely abolished. Only then could instant collective action against an aggressor be taken on a world-wide scale. In theory, this is true. But today, at least, there simply is no great power which would commit its forces to action anywhere in the world if such action clashed directly with its national interests. In this country, for instance, a revision of the UN Charter would need Senate approval like any other treaty. And a body which almost...
...Soviet Union, of course also would never agree to give up the veto. Yet, in a conference on Charter revision, neither power would want to be branded as obstructionist. If the United States, for example either voted against a review conference or refused to consider abolition of the veto, the USSR would have an effective propaganda weapon to flaunt before the world...
...theme was essentially negative. Bidding for the support of EDC champions, he argued that enough of EDC's supranationality had been put into the Brussels Treaty Organization (BRUTO) to limit German arms without really limiting French arms. BRUTO, explained Mendès, would give France "the right of veto . . . on any increase in the armed forces of another participant, for example, Germany." Instead of using German rearmament as an "excuse for withdrawing their troops," the U.S., Britain and Canada as well had agreed to maintain their commitments on the Continent...
...power seemed to be Liu, the party dogmatist, who was made head of "the highest organ of state power," the People's Congress Standing Committee. By constitutional definition, the all-powerful Standing Committee has the right to annul decisions of the State Council (Cabinet), which gives Liu a veto over his rival, Chou Enlai, who was reappointed Premier. Liu's name now follows Mao's on all lists, and leads the rest when Mao's does not appear. Tall, gaunt Liu Shao-chi is one of the least known of the Peking rulers, a humorless...