Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Danube, and a Sarajevo-like delicatessen shooting temporarily disposed of, attention can be riveted upon United Nations progress with the disarmament problem. Russia made an important concession last week in agreeing to international inspection of world disarmament, including the abolition of atomic weapons. But her insistence upon keeping the veto power in disarmament questions has drawn a storm of criticism not only to the Soviet proposal but to the motives behind it as well. Some of the criticisms are thoughtful; others contain an air of cynicism that add little to the discussion...
...more important is the continued indignation over Russia insistence upon keeping the veto power. Security Council control of disarmament with the veto intact has been stated to be "not good enough for the United Kingdom" and presumably is not good enough for the United States either. Without becoming entangled in the legalistic niceties of the veto question, it would seem that Russia's refusal to budge on this point does not stem from some dangerous plan of aggression but rather from her desire to maintain her sovereignty or nationalistic identity for want of a better policy. Similarly, the United States...
This is not to state or imply that the USSR is right and just in the veto question and we are wrong. Rather it is to suggest that as long as national sovereignty remains the world's key frame of reference there will be two good sides to every major problem. Russia will be insistent upon preserving what she considers essential to her national welfare. But her policy, like ours, is not static. As her about-face on the inspection issue proves, the Soviet will change her policy as her nationalistic needs change. The only conclusion, general though...
Russia, barricaded behind the veto, gleefully hurled embarrassing dead cats in a westerly direction. Because his name carried the best publicity value, Molotov worked overtime, pitching doubleheaders at Lake Success and the Big Four meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria...
Aside from the usual run of Soviet propaganda, nothing newsworthy happened except the discovery, by Molotov's translator, Vladimir N. ("Pinky") Pavlov, of a word the Russians seem to have been groping for. In a meeting of the Big Four to consider restrictions on the veto, the word "majorization" was born. "Majorization," as the Western diplomats get it, is the deplorable tendency to reach international decisions by majority vote. Molotov preferred a businesslike approach, which would please the minority as well as the majority. So did everyone else, but little progress on how to achieve that goal with...