Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian yielding on the Security Council veto impasse (TIME, June 18) and the Polish situation...
...Moscow Stalin made concessions. The most conspicuous, though perhaps not the biggest, was agreement on the Security Council veto issue (see The Conference). As Harry Hopkins, who had achieved the veto agreement, left Moscow for Berlin, reports circulated in Washington and Europe that he had also talked Stalin into a settlement of the Polish issue. Even if he had not, the reports themselves were evidence of a feeling that the clouds were lifting...
...Roosevelt's sick, sad and weary friend was about to leave Moscow, after making arrangements for the next Big Three meeting, when President Truman got in touch with him. Secretary Stettinius had told the President that the San Francisco conference was deadlocked on interpretation of the one-power veto. Could Harry fix it with Stalin...
Russia lost "face," but allayed world suspicion by accepting an interpretation broadening the Yalta veto formula (which Franklin Roosevelt had proposed in the first place). Under the agreed interpretation, any one of the Big Five keeps the right to veto any formal investigation or action by the new world organization's Security Council. But no one member can veto simple discussion of an issue, as Russia had previously wanted. Discussions in the Security Council will be permitted whenever any seven of the eleven members so vote...
Australia's Herbert Vere Evatt still clamored that the Big Five had "steamrollered" the veto issue. But Big Power spokesmen pointed out that five out of the six small nations on the Council could exercise a veto, too-if they stood together...