Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alexander, a Democrat of long standing who became a Republican last spring, has also switched from World Federalism to isolationism. He would cut off foreign aid, because it has been used to promote foreign ideologies like socialism in Britain, would get out of a U.N. where Stalin has a veto. "I want to put a Christian into the U.S. Senate," says Alexander, meaning himself, of course, and ruling out Episcopalian Monroney. Alexander's devoted congregation, Oklahoma City's First Christian Church, is even willing to continue his $12,000-a-year salary while he is there...
...veto in the U.N. Security Council was not exclusively a Russian invention. The U.S. Senate itself would not have ratified the U.N. Charter in 1945 if the veto had been omitted. Last week the U.S. and six other nations (Canada, France, Philippines, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay) submitted to the U.N. General Assembly a plan to bypass the sacred veto. No event in U.N.'s history-not even the decision to defend Korea-had more significance. The new proposal, well received by most of the delegations, meant that even the great powers (Russia excepted) were now willing to submit...
...change in U.S. attitude had been produced mainly by Russian abuse of the veto. On 46 occasions the U.S.S.R. had demonstrated that the Security Council was helpless. The Korean decision itself was made possible by a fluke; the Russians who had taken a walk probably would never again repeat their blunder of boycotting the Council...
...Korean decision showed what U.N. could do if freed from the veto. That lesson mobilized support for the new bypassing proposals. These include...
...veto prevented the Security Council from acting against aggression, the General Assembly could be called into special session on 24 hours' notice...