Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...UNESCO's practical work of spreading ideas of peace and cooperation, it would certainly come up repeatedly against this ideological analogy to the Security Council veto. That prospect did not necessarily make UNESCO's task impossible; conflicting ideologies had been put together before. But it was worth noting (lest the world delude itself as to the difficulties facing UNESCO) that such sentiments as Ribnikar's were not those with which Alexander and Porus met in friendship on the fertile Punjab plain...
...some degree, this strategy was basic in the United States' proposal for voluntary modification of the veto power. This country, with support from Britain and China, suggested that the large powers attempt to reconcile their differences privately before issues reached United Nations Security Council for a public showdown
Such a transformation depends more on the big nations than on the U.N. or its Secretary-General. Last week, finally stirring before the small nations' campaign against the "hateful privilege," the Big Five took the veto issue out of U.N.'s committee rooms to their Waldorf-Astoria Tower, in an attempt to reach agreement on curbing the veto...
...justice, would sacrifice his tax exemption and much more to see U.N. grow strong enough to keep the peace. He believes passionately, however, that the infant U.N. must learn to crawl before it can stand up to the great nations whose veto almost nullifies U.N.'s peace-loving powers. Learning to crawl toward peace will be a slow process, Lie says: "This task, to make life richer for ordinary human beings everywhere, must occupy us throughout our lifetimes, and it will occupy those who follow us in time to come...
There was little that Harry Truman could or probably would do to prevent this assumption of power. He could lay about him with his veto, and the Republican majority alone would not be strong enough to override him. But Mr. Truman said he would not follow such tactics. If the Republicans would work with him he would work with them. The major conflicts might well come within the Republican Party. In any case, the Republican legislators, led by Martin, Vandenberg and Taft, will have the task of guiding the nation for the next two years, at least...