Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agree with Vishinsky that there had been a sort of precipitancy. One by one they rose to deplore the hasty-and criminal-Soviet attack. Said Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon: "Trigger-happy." Snapped an angry Andrei : the Security Council had no business discussing the case, and he would veto any attempt to pursue it further...
...material, said Bodine, was a collection of "false statements, distortions and misrepresentations." Example: Selvage said Case "voted to kill the Taft-Hartley Act." Bodine pointed out that, in fact, Case voted for the Taft-Hartley Act, against recommittal, and for its passage over Harry Truman's veto...
...Each nation would have a veto on EDC's council of Defense Ministers...
...wrote the father of Bolshevism in 1916. Thirty-eight years later, his words still guide the policy of his heirs. For six weeks this summer, representatives of the U.S., Britain, France and Canada met privately in London with representatives of Russia, headed by Jacob Malik of veto fame. The hope was that, freed of the necessity to strike postures in public, they might find some solution to the problem that besets all mankind: fear of H-bomb destruction...
...Poland has a veto on the truce's international supervisory commission-a better arrangement than the Communists got in the Korean truce-and can therefore stop anything going wrong for the Communist side...