Word: malik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Park Avenue, headquarters for the U.S. delegation to U.N. There at his desk he wrote a letter. He was Dr. Philip Jessup, onetime college professor and the State Department's top negotiator. He gave the letter to an aide, Albert Bender, to deliver to Yakov Malik, of the Russian U.N. delegation...
...other offices in Manhattan, France's Jean Chauvel and Britain's Alexander Cadogan also waited. At 6 p.m. on Tuesday, a little man named O. A. Tro-yanovsky, whose father had been the first Soviet ambassador appointed to the U.S., arrived at Jessup's office with Malik's reply...
There was momentary confusion; Malik's letter was written in Russian. Aides found a translator. Finally, Jessup got on the telephone. He passed the word to Cadogan and Chauvel that Malik had agreed to meet with them. The first meeting of Four Power spokesmen since last winter's fruitless discussions in Geneva on the subject of the Berlin blockade was set for 12:30 the next...
...Cadogan threaded their way through the crush and into the elevator. In Jessup's modest green and brown office, American, Briton and Frenchman had only a few minutes' wait. At 12:31 the door to Jessup's office was thrown open. There, nodding, was burly Yakov Malik, his smile the beaming equivalent of the Russian for "Hello...
Park Avenue Talk. It was a month before the answer came: it was "not accidental." The Russians were willing to lift the blockade first, settle the currency problem at a meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. Thus began a series of guardedly friendly talks between Malik and Jessup in the Russian U.N. headquarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue. At week's end, they had informally discussed lifting the blockade, perhaps by May 15, had agreed to the U.S.S.R.'s single string to the offer: a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, probably in Paris...