Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within the next month the Communists would have to make up their minds between 1) guerrilla war, 2) a separate state inaccessible to Chiang's armies or 3) peace on terms in which a Chinese Government can function without a Communist veto (see below...
...must 14 be considered the magic number? Because, according to the terms of the agreement, all important decisions must be taken by a two-thirds majority of its members. Now two-thirds of 40 means 27, and with a control of 14 votes, the Communists could veto any measure they do not like...
Without specifically naming Russia, he declared that the way to international amity is through reconciliation of differences and that no states should "arbitrarily exercise their power of veto, preventing a return to conditions of peace and delaying economic reconstruction...
...Wallace asserted: the U.S. is asking for something completely irrelevant when it insists that no power should have the right to veto an international atomic authority's ruling...
Said Baruch: any contract would be "illusory" if a co-signer could repudiate it at will; i.e.,'by a veto...