Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nigeria, larger than Texas and Oklahoma combined, is Britain's most populous (30 million) colony. It is driving hard for self-government (the British governor holds veto powers, but Nigerians, 95% of them illiterate, have elected their first "national" parliament). Population: a hodgepodge in which three tribes predominate. The Hausas in the north, who furnish the backbone of Britain's tough West African Rifles, are Moslems. The South is divided between the ex-cannibal Ibos and sturdy Yoruba farmers, whose ancient city, Ibadan (pop. 400,000), is the largest native city in Africa. Chief resources: tin, coal...
...Africans fear to lose the benevolent protection of the British Colonial Office, suspecting that the whites in an independent "Rhodesia" might follow the example of South Africa and turn down the screws on the blacks. Negro spokesmen vainly petitioned Queen Elizabeth, whom they call the "Great White Mother," to veto the plan...
...important of all, though, was the decision to intervene in Korea. Had the Communist challenge not been faced, had Korea suffered as Manchuria did almost two decades before, the ideal of collective security would surely have died. Investing the Security Council's power in the UN Assembly, where the veto cannot embalm action, allowed the United States to seek and receive the moral support for the Korean venture which only an international assembly can confer. These measures clearly mark the change in attitude from pre-war shilly-shally to today's resolve...
...constitution's basic fault is that the National Assembly-comprising 627 deputies from a dozen parties-is entrusted with complete powers for governing France, but with almost none of the responsibility. All a premier can do when the Assembly votes against him is to quit. He has no veto power to ward off bad parliamentary acts. When a majority defeats him on a vote of confidence, he does not in practice have the powers to dissolve the Assembly, thus forcing the members to risk their own seats at an election. If he did have, the National Assembly might...
Under the statutes of occupation Conant will hold veto power over all decisions of the Bundestag, the Free Germany Parliament...