Word: gromykos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.E.C. last week, Baruch wanted immediate approval of the U.S. proposals in a report to the Security Council. Russia's Andrei Gromyko asked for time to think it over, and perhaps to wire the home office (where Molotov had just arrived) ; Baruch insisted that Gromyko must agree in three days. He also ruled out any veto against punishments...
...working committee with instructions to pay due heed to the U.S. "principles," but to bring the phrasing into harmony with the Assembly's disarmament resolution-a document which does not mention punishment or vetoes. The vote in favor was 10-to-0. Poland abstained; Russia's Gromyko did not even "abstain"-in the technical sense. He simply said: "I am not taking part in this discussion." This was a walkout lacking only the physical act, a sort of sitdown walkout...
...that Baruch had come down off his mountain, maybe Gromyko would come down...
...vote in favor was unanimous. Three months ago Russia had vetoed a similar proposal; this time, although Russia's Andrei Gromyko again brandished the veto, he failed to throw it. The U.N. Assembly which closed in triumph last fortnight had advised the big powers to use the veto with restraint. Last week they were doing...
...prolonged argument over details and phrasing which led up to the final resolution added some weight to a growing and wholesome precedent: that an abstention is not a veto. During the recent Assembly meeting Russia's Vishinsky had argued that an abstention is a veto. Last week Gromyko reversed Vishinsky, and Britain's Cadogan backed...