Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart and core" of U.S. policy would remain the United Nations, and the Senator believed that this would be true "no matter what Administration sits in Washington." But he was not unmindful of the weakness of U.N.: "The excessive use of the veto . . . can reduce the whole system to a mockery." He posed as a test of international good faith this proposition: let "all the Great Powers voluntarily join in a new procedural interpretation of the Charter, to exempt all phases of pacific settlements from [this] stultifying checkmate...
...flanked himself with able and distinguished aides who, like himself, took no pay. By & large, Baruch had been enormously effective. With only Russia and Poland abstaining, the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission had adopted the Baruch plan (TIME, Jan. 6), passed it up to the Security Council, where the veto question must finally be faced...
Though good neighbors and better friends, Secretary of State Byrnes and Elder Statesman Baruch had differed over emphasis on abolition of the veto in atomic matters. Baruch had insisted that it must be abolished; Jimmy Byrnes did not think it was all-important. Now Warren Austin would execute the policy, taking his cue from Byrnes...
Greatest Step? In the clearest terms he had yet used, Bernard Baruch told A.E.C. why the U.S. would not yield its atomic know-how unless the control plan included specific guarantees against veto protection for violators. Baruch said that the A.E.C. recommendations would "die aborning" unless "all of the great powers" on the Council accepted them. He added: "It has been said that if a great nation decided to violate a treaty, no agreements, however solemn, will prevent such violation; that if a great nation does not have the right to release itself from its obligation by veto the result...
...week by a promotion to Deputy Foreign Minister, publicly and directly questioned Baruch's interpretation. Said he: "What the representative of the U.S. proposes actually is a revision of the [U.N.] Charter. The fact that the American proposal provides for a voluntary relinquishment of the so-called 'veto' . . . does not change the situation." But this was a milder Soviet objection than many previous ones...