Word: vetoing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action. India has helped undermine the prestige and power of the U.N. Security Council. India has totally lost the moral power to raise her voice against the use of military power." India, continued Rajagopalachari, had claimed that its action was based on anticolonialist grounds, yet had courted a Soviet veto of the U.N. request for a cease-fire even though "some people think the Soviet empire is the greatest colonial power in the world today...
Jointly the U.S. sponsored a resolution with Britain. France and Turkey ordering an immediate ceasefire. The motion was defeated by Russia's 99th Security Council veto. Actually, neither Adlai Stevenson nor the rest of the world should have been shocked at India's resort to force. To a large extent, Indian nonviolence is a wistful fiction of Western liberals. Since 1947, India has been consistently embroiled in territorial disputes within its own borders. It fought a bloody war over Kashmir with Pakistan that was tacitly approved by Mahatma Gandhi, took "police action'' against Hyderabad when...
...parts-and expresses, often enough, only the lowest common denominator of its members' policies. It can never be several things that overly enthusiastic supporters have, to its own disadvantage, wanted it to be. It cannot solve major world issues (Berlin, nuclear testing) because of the veto system, which accurately reflects the realities of a divided world. It cannot be a substitute for national policy, and should not be an easy dumping ground for problems...
...years the U.S. has managed to counteract the Security Council veto, at least in part, through its majorities in the General Assembly. It has been clear for some time that the rush of the new African members into the U.N. would reduce or destroy those majorities. Some of these new members are volatile, hypnotized by the archaic fear of colonialism, and easily susceptible to Communist influence. As in the Goa case, many of them act blindly on a double standard, ready to condemn the West, rarely ready to criticize their own friends or the Communists. Does this mean, as some...
Britain voted to support the resolution, because it recognizes Red China. The African vote showed that the U.S. had gambled successfully for African sympathy in the Mauritania-Outer Mongolia deal (in which the U.S. prevented a Russian veto of Mauritania's admission in exchange for not vetoing Outer Mongolia...