Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 28 weeks of discussion in 82 meetings, the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission this week finally sent its recommendations to the Security Council. The vote was 10 to 0; Russia and Poland abstained. The road to effective international control of the atom still ribboned away indefinitely into the distance-and the next two sections to be traveled would require unanimity. But the long A.E.C. survey had shown the only likely route...
...Gentlemen, it is either-or. Either you agree that a criminal should have this right ... or you vote for this sound and basic principle of enduring justice and plain common sense...
...limitations is the habit of not making decisions until they are forced upon him. While Byrnes has been saddled with negotiations on Europe, no U.S. policy ha's been made in wide areas of the world. The U.S. Palestine policy as enunciated by Truman was mere mischievous vote-catching, as unrealistic in its extreme pro-Zionism as the Grand Mufti's antiSemitism. No one is really making policy on Latin America. On China, a key piece in the U.S. policy structure, John Carter Vincent, director of the State Department's Far Eastern Division, last fortnight rushed...
...taken the National Assembly 41 days to approve the Constitution. The final vote was almost unanimous. But even the final sessions were not all sweetness & light. TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin reported the scene...
After military police restored order, Kung's men won on the vote-they amended Article 27 of the constitution draft, to give the future Assembly (and therefore the Kuomintang) almost absolute powers. Young China delegates and Democratic Socialists talked darkly of Kuomintang dictatorship, threatened to walk out of the Assembly. Cried the newspaper Ta Kung Pao: "The fundamental spirit of the constitution is shaking...