Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote in favor was unanimous. Three months ago Russia had vetoed a similar proposal; this time, although Russia's Andrei Gromyko again brandished the veto, he failed to throw it. The U.N. Assembly which closed in triumph last fortnight had advised the big powers to use the veto with restraint. Last week they were doing...
What Is a Veto? The prolonged argument over details and phrasing which led up to the final resolution added some weight to a growing and wholesome precedent: that an abstention is not a veto. During the recent Assembly meeting Russia's Vishinsky had argued that an abstention is a veto. Last week Gromyko reversed Vishinsky, and Britain's Cadogan backed...
...favor of a Mexican proposal to increase the number of nations participating in the Balkan inquiry from seven to eleven. Eight hands went up, but since Gromyko's did not, Johnson declared the proposal defeated. Gromyko shook his head. Realizing that the Russian did not intend to veto, Johnson asked for negative votes. Only Poland and The Netherlands (neither has a veto right) responded. "Motion carried," said Mr. Johnson...
Later, Sir Alexander Cadogan abstained from voting on a proposal to include the whole of Greek territory in the investigation. But he nodded and smiled at Gromyko, as if to say "No veto" (or "After you, Alphonse") and the motion was carried...
Under President Truman's "reamrmation" of an outdated China policy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Mediator George C. Marshall has nothing left to mediate. Chiang Kaishek, who, when he was less strong, refused to trust the Communists with a veto position in his Government, is obviously not going to do so after his recent military victories over the Reds...