Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rally planners hope to include Massachusetts Avenue in the marching route, but riot-conscious Randall is also trying to veto this scheme. Randall explained yesterday that the Cambridge Police Department does not want traffic tied up on Mass Avenue or a repetition of last year's Princeton riot...
...Acheson Plan of calling the General Assembly to action in an emergency appears sound. It will bypass the Soviet veto in the Security Council, and thus make the U.N. effective in handling the really important international problems. But it is obvious that troop support for the U. N. will have to come largely from the big powers, no matter how many nations are involved in U. N. Police actions...
...crisis like the Korean invasion arose next week, Russia would undoubtedly veto Council action. Under the present rules, U.N. would thereafter be unable to do anything except talk. Under the proposed rules, the Assembly would go into session, hear from its Commission and call up the nations to fight the aggressor with those units of their armed forces that had been specially trained for U.N. work...
Vishinsky was on fairly solid ground when he said that the proposals violated the letter and spirit of the Charter drawn at San Francisco. But the Charter could not be amended unless the Russians agreed. The non-Communist nations faced the choice between evading the Charter's veto provisions or junking U.N. as a peacekeeping instrument...
Last week in the Security Council, the U.S.S.R. cast a veto-its 46th-against another five-year term for Lie. The General Assembly cannot re-elect Lie unless the Council so recommends. But, the Assembly, which fixed his original term, can -and probably will-extend Lie's present term of office...