Word: malik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Nations last week, the bad Malik† said No for what was probably the last time. In an hour-long speech sputtering with the standard invective, he announced Russia's complete rejection of the five-power disarmament talks proposed last month by the U.S., Britain and France. He also took a sideswipe at Ike Eisenhower, who, claimed Malik, has "a mad armament race as his platform...
...Russia's chief delegate to the U.N. since 1948, Malik has rivaled even his predecessor Gromyko for plain cussedness (52 vetoes), false charges (germ warfare) and phony offers (the Korean truce). In 1950 he became a TV character as familiar as Hopalong Cassidy, and brought the voice and face of the enemy into the American living room. Last week, Malik was being recalled from his U.N. post for "rest and re-assignment." (Best guess: a high post in the Kremlin's Far East Department.) Asked about his new duties, Malik said only: "There is no unemployment...
...Administration itself knows and admires the arts of compromise. It has been highly tolerant of such Southern opposition as Sparkman's. In 1950 the State Department selected Sparkman as one of five U.S. delegates to the U.N. General Assembly. From Andrei Vishinsky and Jacob Malik he learned something a good deal more Arctic than anything in Speaker Bankhead's zephyrus philosophy. "For the first time," said Sparkman, "I found men who were not amenable to any reason or compromise...
Russia, of course, wanted no such thing. Soviet Delegate Jacob Malik used all the familiar stalling tactics-he demanded priority for an entirely different subject (new U.N. members) and was voted down; he insisted that representatives of Red China and North Korea be invited into the debate, and got voted down again. Then he strolled out to the delegates' lounge while the Council discussed the U.S. proposal...
When the vote came, however, Malik was quick to put his newspaper down. Ten of the eleven Council members voted for the investigation. Malik killed it with Russia's sist U.N. veto. Then the U.S. bounced right back with a second proposal: a resolution roundly condemning "the practice of fabricating and disseminating" the germs of untruth. Malik announced that he would veto that...