Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...measure which carefully specified the destination of all U.S. arms. The Atlantic Treaty nations would get $1.16 billion worth, Greece and Turkey would get $211 million, $27.6 million more would be divided between Iran, Korea and the Philippines. Any transfer of U.S. military stocks would be subject to a veto by the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Lend-Lease after war's end. But Stalin was ready to be friends again if the U.S. 1) abandoned Britain and signed a treaty with Russia reaffirming the Yalta and Potsdam deals, 2) agreed to return all of Germany to four-power control (i.e., a Soviet veto), 3) granted "generous" reparations to Russia, 4) resumed normal trade with Russia and sparked it off with a $2 billion loan...
...this went for nothing. Lucas predicted that President Truman would veto the Taft bill if it should pass the House (as was very unlikely). Then the old Taft-Hartley Act, with all the faults in it that Taft admitted to, would remain the nation's labor law. Why? Because the Administration, for obvious political reasons, didn't want it improved; it only wanted to kill it-but couldn...
Acheson's proposition: 1) citywide free elections for a provisional Berlin government; 2) re-establishment of the four-power Kommandatura with each nation's veto power restricted to security matters only. When Acheson suggested that the ministers talk about it behind closed doors, Vishinsky agreed...
...Berlin, Vishinsky's manner was agreeable, and he seemed willing to discuss a compromise. On the second day, Vishinsky stiffened. He conceded four-power supervision of free elections for a municipal council, but he wanted to rob the council of all real power by putting it under the veto-bound four-power Kommandatura. By week's end, Vishinsky had conceded a slight limitation of the four powers' veto in the Kommandatura, but the West wanted to abolish the veto entirely, except for security matters, and leave the Berliners' own government wide powers to run its affairs...