Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rationale behind this rigid administration of justice is Public Law 414--passed in the closing days of the 82d Congress, over President's Truman's veto--better known as the McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act. And, it was not narrow interpretation of a broad provision of the law, but explicit instruction that forced immigration officials to make the girl return to the Philippines...
...sure, there has been agitation against the inequities of the law since it was passed over the Truman veto. President Eisenhower has described the bill as "a glaring example of failure of our national leadership to live up to high ideals." Religious and social groups have actively opposed the act, while trying to help the people admitted under...
...Paris instructed its high commissioner in Germany to veto the amendment to the West German constitution, passed by the Bundesrat, to enable the Germans to rearm within EDC. Later, the French agreed to approve the amendment on conditions that would require a delay of four or five months in German ratification of EDC. The Germans jutted their jaws. Editorialized Hamburg's influential Die Welt: "If the French had intended to produce Europamüdigkeit [a state of being fed up with Europe], they could not have acted otherwise." The West German Cabinet bluntly told Paris that its conditions would...
...parliamentary vote on EDC. But Bidault last week produced a new memorandum and said Germany would have to accept it. Its major new provision: no trade preferment for West Germany in the Saar until the common market for Europe is well under way. This meant granting Paris an indefinite veto over German trading rights in the Saar...
...that very moment Egypt's real government−the young, twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council−was holding an emergency session to decide Naguib's fate. Three days before he had delivered an ultimatum: either the R.C.C. would give him the right to veto its decisions, to appoint and dismiss Cabinet ministers and to promote and cashier army officers, or he would quit. Naguib felt no uneasiness; since Farouk departed in July 1952, the amiable major general had become Mr. Egypt. He put on his general's cap and went home, confident...