Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberated by the United Nations are to remain open without restrictions to military and civil officials and to press representatives of all the United Nations; 3) a hands-off policy in liberated countries (which means cutting out the puppet stuff); 4) renunciation by the major powers of a veto right in cases before the coming Security Council in which they are the accused...
...acre valley, where frontier rustlers once hid out. For 50 years conservationists have been fighting to make it a park. But many a Congressman and rancher bristled. Their argument: the Federal Government already owns too much western land; Federal ownership cuts down State land taxes. In his veto the President rejoined: Wyoming is still permitted to tax private lands in the valley, and private grazing rights remain inviolate...
...heartily endorsed the insistence of the major powers on a veto privilege. America will be unwilling, asserted Professor Perry, to trust to an international order in which the United States may be outvoted by 40 or 50 scattered countries, the management of conquered territories for which many American soldiers gave their lives...
...week's end, Prime Minister Smuts was taking long walks on the veld around his farm near Pretoria. For him the question was whether to veto Natal's ordinance by an Act of Parliament and rock his Government, or let the ordinance stand and perhaps rock the Empire...
Franklin Roosevelt gave Dumbarton Oaks his accolade: "Well begun." Tom Dewey chimed in with approval, too. But still unanswered is the basic question: How can the new world order stop an aggression by one of its own Big Five? Russia wanted a chance to veto any Security Council decision involving her; the U.S., Britain and China did not. That remained to be talked out at a "higher level," i.e., Churchill-Stalin-Roosevelt (see above...