Word: malik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, hoping to get in. The five: Libya, Japan, Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos (the last three are more or less autonomous states formed from the former French colony of Indo-China). Ten of eleven Security Council members voted to admit all five. But Russia's Jacob Malik blackballed them by casting Soviet vetoes, Nos. 51 to 55 incl...
...debate over Libya, Malik brought up an old Russian proposal for a package deal: if the Security Council admits Red satellites Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Outer Mongolia, Russia will no longer veto such other Western-supported applicants as Austria, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Nepal and Portugal...
...Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik, a connoisseur of invective, promptly adopted snollygoster (mispronouncing it as snollygaster). It is, said Malik sententiously, "a difficult-to-trans-late English term" applicable to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, both of the U.S. presidential nominees-and Harry Truman. A familiar Russian phrase may be expanded to "bandits, warmongers, profiteers and snollygosters...
...Malik's place will be taken by a man who promises to be no better: Valerian Aleksandrovich Zorin, 50, who earned his greatest diplomatic laurels as Soviet Ambassador to Prague from 1945 to 1947. U.S. Intelligence men credit him with supervising the Communist seizure of Czechoslovakia. For his services, he was awarded the Czech Order of the White Lion. U.S. diplomats remember him principally for his appearance at a 1947 session of the United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe, where he stubbornly opposed every American plan to bring aid to war-devastated areas...
...Russia's Jacob Malik, not to be confused with Lebanon's good Charles Malik...