Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questioned the value of the United Nations, delimited as it was by the veto, its concept based solely on "peace and security," not on "law and justice." He took the unpopular position, as so many of his positions were, of denouncing the Nürnberg trials, which "violate the fundamental principle of American law that a man cannot be tried under an ex post facto statute ... In these trials we have accepted the Russian idea of the purpose of trials-government policy and not justice...
...ruthless: when a group of high army officers, led by Marshal Tukhachevsky, tried to throw off Chekist control in 1937, they were liquidated, along with some 30,000 regular career officers. Behind every high Red army commander in World War II stood a Chekist with the power to veto military orders. The system paid off: Chekist disregard for life accounted for some of the Red army's more daring and costly victories. With the war's end, many of the Red army's greatest marshals were not soldiers, but cops. Such a one is goateed Marshal Nikolai...
...supporting the U.S., albeit reluctantly, the U.N. confirmed and strengthened the principle of collective security. It saved its honor but lost much of its popularity. The U.S. was well aware that only a lucky break (the temporary absence of veto-wielding Jacob Malik) made possible the U.N. resolution backing intervention in Korea. And its commanders in the field disliked being held accountable...
...leaving unclear whether the U.S., as a permanent member of the Security Council, would veto Red China's admission...
...Zealand, with Japan and the Philippines, and a very definite understanding with the French in Indo-China. I think we should [also] have a free hand to form a [military] alliance with the British [on] Far Eastern affairs . . . but not one in which they possess any final veto against our policies...