Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veto. A group of small nations, led by Cuba and Australia, demanded that the Assembly take a stand for modification of the Big Five veto in the Security Council. Since Russia has used the veto nine times since U.N.'s creation (no other nation has invoked it), the Russian delegation naturally was dead set against debating the proposal. The Ukraine's Dmitri Manuilsky charged that the small nations were scattering "apples of discord...
...publisher" of this issue would have it be known that the quotations marks belong exactly where we have placed them. In the concoction of this word-cacaphony he has enjoyed neither privilege of initiative nor power of veto. His role is so different from that of publishers in real life that, whatever the shortcomings of today's Crimson, we tend to support his claim that he cannot be held responsible for them. In his capacity as Curator of the Nieman Foundation (Keeper of the Nieman Fellows), however, he has consented to do an introduction on them...
Both White Russia and Poland vigorously defended the big power vote in the hot Assembly debate in the wake of strong New Zealand charges that the veto system was a "shotgun wedding" forced upon the small nations...
Eleven small countries already are on record in the hot discussion demanding elimination or modification of the veto system...
Kiselev, speaking on the veto, said the unity of the big powers is the basis of the U.N. organization...