Word: lackeyism
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...Moscow, the Russians revealed that their immediate target was U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N. operation in the Congo. In a savage 1,500-word statement, they attacked Hammarskjold as an "imperialist lackey" and an "accomplice and organizer of murder," and demanded that he be thrown out of office. Simultaneously, Moscow announced immediate recognition of the Communist-backed Stanleyville rebel regime of Red-lining Antoine Gizenga, onetime Vice Premier in the Lumumba government, and promised "all possible assistance and support" for it. To an anxious world, it seemed a clear threat that Russia was ready to intervene physically...
...worse than a spittoon-a cuspidor"; Nationalist China was "a corpse we have to cast right out of here, straight to hell." From places and things he descended to personalities: Syngman Rhee was "a throttler and choker of the Korean people," Philippine Delegate Lorenzo Sumulong "a jerk and a lackey," Dag Hammarskjold "a fool" and President Dwight Eisenhower "a liar." As for the United Nations itself, "the U.N. is the U.S., it's all one; after all, it's a branch of the State Department...
...farrago that included a demand for a prompt end to colonial rule in the world's remaining colonies, and a sharp attack on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, calling for a triumvirate to take his place. Khrushchev seemed bent on destroying Hammarskjold's usefulness (calling him a lackey of the imperialist powers), as the Soviets had destroyed the usefulness of Hammarskjold's predecessor, Trygve...
...Rewarded Lackey. Early in 1959, the Castro revolution, which he helped as a relatively minor member of the resistance, rewarded Roa with the ambassadorship to the Organization of American States. When the revolution's first for eign minister was fired for anti-Communist views a few months later, Roa took his place and got the hemisphere for his lecture room. Now he is the face of Cuba at international gatherings...
Actually, Roa is a mere lackey in the Castro administration. He is not a part of the inner circle, and ranks not as a maker but as an executor of policy. He is told what to do and how to do it. The foreign ministry strongman is Carlos Olivares, nominally the subsecretary, who is much closer to the Communists. Roa's problem is that he cannot live down the evidence of his earlier independence. A collection of his 1953-58 writings published last year under the title En Pie (Afoot) shows that until recently he was above all antiCommunist...