Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howell further stated that the final election will be held by preferential ballot despite a specific recommendation to the contrary by Daniel P.S. Paul's Class Committee. The announcement followed a Student Council veto...
...Molotov by adopting the slogan: "The Fatherland is in danger." In fact, the U.S. and Britain favor (and France will accept) a unified Germany. What the Western powers will resist at London is either a Communist-dominated Germany or the kind of international arrangement which will allow the Russian veto to paralyze recovery and leave both Germany and Western Europe in an economic morass...
...police in bluish-grey uniforms, sat the spectators (mostly matrons and students) in a subdued glow of public spirit. From the rostrum at the far end of the huge hall, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky faced them. A proposal had been made by Argentina to submit the veto question to the "Little Assembly" for examination. Vishinsky fulminated against it, exploded with similes: ". . . They are repeating day after day 'the veto must be destroyed'; like Cato of old; [like the] Trojan horse; [like a] Walpurgis Night...
Questioned by John K. Lally '49, chairman of the Food Committee, Reynolds stated that the University would veto any plan which, like last year's $25,000 drive, involves dining hall restriction on foods. Many men who voted "no" in last winter's Council poll objected strenuously to the "forced saving" which was imposed upon them by the majority; and in consideration of their attitude the University will reject any such scheme...
...because they fear Germany, but because Ruhr coal can revive Europe, which the Communists want to keep in want and disorder (see FOREIGN NEWS). What the Kremlin would like most out of the London Conference would be to hang on to eastern Germany politically and still get a veto over the administration of the Ruhr. The U.S. and Britain are not likely to fall for that. So, for a while after the London Conference, there will probably be two Germanys, one working for European stability, one working for Russia. After a while, the four powers may write a treaty...