Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generals that the Korean attack was an act of aggression that had to be met, that if it went unopposed the idea of collective security would collapse. The U.S. went into the Security Council with its mind made up, and with no Russians around to cast a veto, won prompt agreement that the U.S. and U.N. should intervene...
...matter exactly like impeachment, except that the "allegation of mental incapacity" would be substituted for that of impeachable crime in office. "The testimony of competent psychiatrists would, of course, be sought." Afraid that the patient would not submit quietly, the Tribune added: "Since Mr. Truman would still have his veto power, the actual accomplishment of such a process would probably still require a two-thirds vote." The Tribune apparently had not read the Constitution lately: its proposal has no constitutional sanction, and the President no veto on impeachment...
...Friday the Assembly recessed. The session, begun last September, had made the U.N.'s most significant decision since its establishment in 1945, to wit, that the veto-free Assembly could act against aggression whenever a veto blocked the Security Council. But it closed on a note of evasion, not firmness, without applying its new power against flagrant Chinese Communist aggression...
Though a Russian veto had blocked Security Council action (TIME, Dec. 11), no move was made to bring the issue before the General Assembly under the new formula that permits veto-free condemnation of aggressors and recommendations for action against them. Instead, the U.S., Britain, France, Norway, Cuba and Ecuador offered the Assembly a resolution charging Red China with "intervention" in Korea, asking withdrawal of its troops, promising protection for China's border rights. The six powers made no suggestions for U.N. countermeasures...
...open to take the problem of Chinese aggression into the veto-free U.N. General Assembly. To find out what the U.S would ask of the Assembly, U.S. Delegate Warren Austin hurried to Washington, spent two hours taking stock with Dean Acheson. This week Austin joined with delegates of five other powers to ask that the Assembly take up the question of "Intervention of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China in Korea...