Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test of this nation's intent to play a leading role on the world stage is still to come. Britain's request to discuss certain aspects of the recent loan, the admitted inability of the Security Council to resolve the Balkan squabbles, the Russian penchant for hiding behind her veto--all are ideal ammunition for those who desire to belittle the benefits of international cooperation. Some Congressmen and editorialists are already saying they--"knew all along" that the United States should stay out of other peoples business...
Gromyko (rhymes with Topeka) was the man who, even more than Harry Truman, had made Americans veto-conscious. There had been ten Russian vetoes in 14 months; no other power had ever vetoed the will of the Council majority. Two weeks ago came veto No. 11. The majority of U.N.'s Balkan Commission had reported that Greece's Communist neighbors were supporting Greece's Communist guerrillas. The U.S. proposed a border watch. Gromyko promptly vetoed it. Last week Gromyko got around to explaining his veto. His remarks were intended for gulliberals of the Henry Wallace school rather than...
History's verdict on U.N. was still in the jury room, but a lot of the world's people were discouraged by what Gromyko's veto had done to it. Said a disabled veteran in Berlin: "The U.N. is a Punch & Judy show. The Americans ought to hit the Russians over the head, finally...
Argentina's Foreign Minister Juan A. Bramuglia had saved his surprise for the last minute. Diplomats had expected that Argentine insistence on a veto would drag out the drafting of a hemispheric defense treaty at the Rio Conference that opens this week (TIME, Aug. 11). But just before boarding ship for Rio, Bramuglia made a startling announcement: his country would bow to majority decisions after all. Maybe there was more to Juan Perón's current "peace offensive" than the pundits had thought...
Said U.S. Delegate Herschel Johnson: ". . . A simple abuse of power, abuse of the veto . . . we are not going to let the thing go by default. . . ." Everybody in U.N., including the Russians, knew that. They had known it since U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall rushed to Washington from the Salt Lake City Governors' Conference a fortnight ago upon reports that an "international brigade" was forming north of Greece...