Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they would vote for Byelorussia. So, to the dismay of the State Department, did Great Britain. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden believes that East-West relations have become so frozen that a little pliability on small things might thaw Russia out. After all, said the British, Russia already has one veto on the Security Council, and one more small vote for the Russians could not make matters any worse. And furthermore, the British want to protect the gentlemen's agreement whereby another Council seat is reserved for the British Commonwealth. Other Western Europeans, reportedly the Scandinavians and French, sided with...
...seems blind to the responsibilities and opportunities of U.S. leadership. In a detached, passive and utterly unrealistic passage, he says: "It seems to me that peace in this world is impossible unless nations agree on a definite law to govern their relations . . . and also agree that, without any veto power, they will submit their disputes to adjudication and abide by the decision of an impartial tribunal...
Dever had also requested the local chapter of a national organization to write up a veto message on this bill. But when the people who were working on this message called the Governor's Office to check up on a small point, they were told that the Governor had signed the bill the day before. They found that Dever had gone to Cape Cod for a vacation and that he could not be reached. As yet there has been no official announcement either...
...four-power negotiations with Russia any time Russia had something genuine to offer. But it was prepared to go further. Last year, Acheson's "Uniting for Peace" resolution transformed the lowly Assembly from a debating society into an agency that might take over actual peace enforcement from the veto-choked Security Council. This year, Acheson wanted the Assembly to take on even more power by tying together, under its auspices, the regional security organizations which the West has been building. There are now five, involving 38 nations, and the U.S. is the only nation belonging to all: NATO, with...
About 880 students yesterday signed a petition sponsored by the Liberal Union requesting that Governor Paul A. Dever veto any anti-subversive bills that the legislature may pass...