Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pinky") Pavlov, of a word the Russians seem to have been groping for. In a meeting of the Big Four to consider restrictions on the veto, the word "majorization" was born. "Majorization," as the Western diplomats get it, is the deplorable tendency to reach international decisions by majority vote. Molotov preferred a businesslike approach, which would please the minority as well as the majority. So did everyone else, but little progress on how to achieve that goal with or without "majorization" was reported last week...
Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs, had said privately and cynically (TIME, May 27) that in a completely free election the Communist-sponsored Government of Rumania would get 40% of the vote but that "with just the littlest bit of pressure" it would get 90%. In last week's election the Government parties got 84% of the popular vote, 348 of the 414 seats in the new Parliament.* But the pressure was anything but "littlest...
...boldly manipulated in the postwar Balkans. The Government had denied the opposition radio time, newsprint for its papers, transportation for its candidates. The Democratic Front's risingsun symbol was plastered every where, including polling places. In one brewery, workers were treated to a one-act play entitled Vote the Sun, then marched in to vote...
...electorate was disfranchised, because voters had to present as many as 16 documents to get cards entitling them to ballots. On election day 11,000 cardless citizens braved Communist thug lines surrounding the U.S. Military Mission headquarters to sign charges that they had been denied the right to vote. Yet some voters displayed fistfuls of cards. One Communist showed me 47-two for himself, three for his wife, 42 for distribution to trusted friends...
...YORK, November 26-Secretary of State Byrnes and British Foreign Secretary Bevin searched in a secret bilateral sesson today for a method for minimizing criticism among the little nations of the big power use of the vote in United Nations decisions...