Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early Japanese peace treaty, U.S. diplomats this week began discussing the subject with the other nations which fought in the Pacific war. One of these was Soviet Russia (one week at war with Japan), which had blocked every move toward a treaty by insisting on a Big Four veto over all proposals. But this time, the U.S. had decided to go around the Soviet roadblock. The word was that if Russia still refused to go along, the other Allies would negotiate a separate peace without Moscow's consent...
...Western Berlin. The split of the city into East and West was now final. In the December 1948 elections in the Western sectors, the Socialists racked up a big victory and Reuter at last became officially the Oberbürgermeister. This time there was no question of a Russian veto...
...Austin won a 9-1 vote, but the lone negative by Malik vetoed his proposal. It was Russia's 44th veto...
...Vishinsky was on his way to head the Soviet delegation to the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly that opens at Flushing Meadows on Sept. 19. In the Assembly, Soviet slander will be even less effective than in the Security Council. There, the Russians do not have the veto...
Died. Representative Alfred Lee Bulwinkle, 67, Congressman from North Carolina since 1921 (with one break, 1929-31); after long illness; in Gastonia, N.C. He was co-sponsor of the Reed-Bulwinkle bill, passed in June 1948 over President Truman's veto, to exempt common carriers from antitrust prosecution for entering into rate-fixing agreements...