Word: malik
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Propaganda Points. The same day, in London, Jacob Malik, Soviet delegate to the U.N. Disarmament Commission Subcommittee meeting there, spelled out in long-prepared detail how the Soviet Union would end the cold war. He did so without furnishing his fellow negotiators with translations, but Radio Moscow promptly broadcast the message in English, indicating that the Kremlin had intended the idea primarily for propaganda, not negotiation...
...Next, Malik proposed that the Disarmament Commission draw up for the Security Council an international convention which would "completely prohibit the use and manufacture of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction...
...anti-Western propaganda barrage. Also lined up on the pro-Western side: Pakistan's Mohammed Ali, Thailand's Oxford-educated Prince Wan Waithayakon, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu (a former NATO delegate), and Lebanon's stoutly pro-Western Charles Malik. Besides Chou's, there was only one Communist delegation: North Viet Nam's, led by Foreign Minister Pham Van Dong. General Principles. For months the host delegation had been trying to put together an agenda (some subjects: atomic energy control, anticolonialism, coexistence, "universal" U.N. membership). Any of these might be exploited...
...establishment of the Byzantine chair stems in part, according to Huggins, from a letter sent by Charles Malik, Lebanese Ambassador to the U.N., to President Emeritus Conant in 1952. Malik wrote, "At the bottom of the great division in the world today certainly lies the spiritual estrangement between Rome and Byzantium which occurred a thousand years ago. The healing of this breach is an indispensable condition for real peace and understanding. I hope... Harvard will stand out in the Western Hemisphere as the place most clearly indicated for that purpose. I think such an act of charity on the part...
...Challenge of Communism. Greek Orthodox Layman Charles Malik, Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. and head of one of the assembly discussion groups, called for the World Council to produce "a ringing, positive message-one of reality, of truth and of hope." Communism, he continued, "exposes the inadequacy, if not indeed the bankruptcy, of the Western-imperialistic and smug-Christian approach of the past ... At the present degree of spiritual impotence ... it is only a matter of time before the whole of Asia and Africa, and maybe even Europe, will be engulfed by Communism...