Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Dumbarton Oaks proposals one big power, even if the aggressor, can veto the operation of the security system created in the Act of Chapultepec, the Franco-Russian alliance, or any other such arrangement. In our opinion, the Security Council should have only advisory power in this, regard...
Council's power in its Big-Power members, but made any effective action by the organization impossible without the unanimous consent of the Big Powers. In short, any one of the Big Powers may "veto" such action-even if it is an aggressor...
Nevertheless, the Big Power veto is not all-inclusive. On minor matters of procedure, the votes of any seven members are sufficient. In the preliminary stages of serious inquiry, even at the point of deciding whether a given situation "is in fact likely" to endanger peace, a Big-Power member directly involved in an issue cannot vote at all. But the other four Big Powers must concur in any vote to investigate or take even preliminary action. At the all-important point of determining whether a threat actually exists, and from then on to positive action, the Council can make...
...That man was Jimmy Byrnes (see U.S. AT WAR), whose responsibilities would include many other matters as well. A good deal was known about his world attitude. He was for Dumbarton Oaks, the Yalta agreements, Big-Power leadership ("They have the votes, don't they?"), The Big-Power veto in the proposed World Security Council seemed logical to him. So did the agreement on Poland, because it recognized the fact that Stalin held the top cards. On trusteeship, this same instinct forgetting the votes count themselves made him side with Churchill and the U.S.' Navy, prefer...
...might prove a wedge for special taxes on other businesses. But the legislature passed the bill. Nevada's Governor E. P. Carville hemmed, hawed, called for public hearing, finally decided not to touch the red hot document. Last week, after the lapse of the period allowed for veto, it became law without his signature...