The Art of Diplomacy
... Senate or the American people would approve the idea of this new United Nations. In fact, the proposal to include the 16 republics with voting rights in the global organization seemed so absurd to Roosevelt that he expected to talk Stalin out of it (as history showed, it was eventually decided that two Soviet Republics, Ukraine and Belarus, will become UN member-states). Another difficulty centered on the veto: the more the British and Americans objected to it, the more insistent Gromyko became. Stettinius ...
24.10.2013
