Word: vetoing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...government for Western Germany was nearly a reality. Secretary of State Dean Acheson made it clear that the U.S. would not allow the Russians to talk Western Germany to death by delays; nor would it permit any German government to be hamstrung by re-establishment of a Russian veto. "The people of Western Germany may rest assured," said Acheson, "that this Government will agree to no general solution for Germany into which the basic safeguards and benefits of the existing Western German arrangements would not be absorbed...
...before the Assembly was a resolution submitted by the U.S., Britain, France and China, asking that the Big Five voluntarily curb their veto power in the Security Council. To the little nations, who had spent a year drafting the resolution, it was the most important business on the agenda. New Zealand's Sir Carl Berendsen cried: "I would give my right hand for the success of this organization...
Russia's Andrei Gromyko lumped the veto question with the North Atlantic pact. The pact, he cried, was a direct. threat to Russia; moreover it was in violation of the U.N. charter. It took McNeil no time at all to demolish Gromyko's argument. "No one fears, or need fear the Atlantic pact, if their intentions are pacific . . ." he said. "Those to whom the thought and methods of war are utterly repugnant . . . will welcome the Atlantic pact...
...Russians stood by icily as the Assembly voted 43 to 6 to pass the veto resolution. At his post in the Chambers delicatessen, Sam Schulman was well pleased with Mr. McNeil's work. As for Russia, Sam expressed a harsh and highly undiplomatic opinion. "Russia is no good," he said sadly. "Absolutely no good...
...signed the pact in Washington, Portugal's dictator-and Spain's good neighbor- Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar declared that Spain's exclusion from the pact was a "geographical and strategical weakness" in the "Western front." *In the Security Council, Russia last week used her 30th veto to block the admission of Korea to U.N. membership...