Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Failed, by four votes, to override Harry Truman's veto of a bill which would have made presidential appointments to the Atomic Energy Commission subject to a loyalty check...
...screened" by Moscow. Russia's Andrei Gromyko, soon to return to Moscow, denounced the charges as "sheer libel." When it was moved that the Council set up a subcommittee to investigate Russian pressures at the time of the Czech coup itself, Gromyko countered by threatening a double veto...
...Council knew what that meant. During his 26-month tenure as Soviet delegate to the Security Council, Gromyko used the plain, ordinary, unadulterated veto 18 times. But only twice before did he unleash the full, blinding power of the double veto, which stops discussion before it can even get started...
Cast in the form of a Senate resolution, it reaffirmed the U.S.'s determination to base its policy on U.N. as now constituted, but to work for gradual revision of the veto power. It laid down the legal basis for U.S. plans to organize collective security within that framework. These called for development of regional arrangements for collective self-defense under Article 51, and the "association" of the U.S. with such groupings. Vandenberg obviously had in mind Europe's Western Union...
...cast a vote for the revision plan. Marshall and Austin, though deploring the tactics, were far from decrying the spirit. They asked for a resolution supporting the U.S.'s patient efforts to shore up the structure of U.N. "from within" through the Little Assembly, and restriction of the veto in peaceful settlements...