Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week members of the U.N. Security Council bowed to the intransigence of Red China's General Wu Hsiu-chuan (see WAR IN ASIA) and wound up their discussion of the Korean and Formosan questions. Fatalistically, the representatives of the free world heard Russia's Jacob Malik veto a resolution ordering Communist China to end her intervention in Korea...
...agree within a year-the U.S. assumed they would not-the U.N. General Assembly would make the decision. Similarly, if these four nations could not agree on what to do about Formosa and Formosa's best-known inhabitant, Chiang Kaishek, that too would be put up to the veto-free U.N. General Assembly...
...would do nothing but mark time until the delegation from Red China arrived. U.S. Delegate John Foster Dulles persuaded the Political & Security Committee to postpone indefinitely its scheduled debate on the future status of Formosa. In the Security Council, Russia's Jacob Malik threatened to use his veto power if the Council were asked to vote on a resolution proposed a week earlier by the U.S. and five other powers. Although the resolution was intended primarily to quiet Chinese Communist suspicions of U.N. aims in Korea, Malik denounced it because it also contained a request that Mao Tse-tung...
...adjunct to Secretary Acheson's plan to funnel complaints about aggression through the veto-less General Assembly, the foreign minister of Yugoslavia has proposed to the United Nations a definition of an "aggressor...
...sharp rebuff to the Russians, who had originally championed Lie, eventually turned against him because he had sped up U.N. action in Korea. It was also a slapdown of the veto used by Russia to block a Security Council vote in favor of Lie (TIME, Oct. 23). The Secretary General discreetly stayed at home, in Forest Hills, N.Y., until the Assembly finished the debate over him. Then he appeared at Flushing Meadow to voice his thanks...