Word: malik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tone? Malik chose an innocuous U.N. radio program as his platform, delivered a 14-minute speech which promised to start off like most of his past blasts at the West. But this time, there were some differences in tone...
...Malik spoke to his American listeners not in Russian but in English, heavily accented but clear. For another, the speech had been stripped of the more heavy-handed terms normally used by the Russian oratory: no one was called a "lackey" or "assassin" or "barbarian...
...Malik, while denouncing Western warmongers, did his dogged best repeating Soviet Russia's familiar contention that the West, not the peace-loving Communists, is driving the world to the brink of war. Said he: "The ruling circles in the United States, the United Kingdom and France are endeavoring to convince their peoples that... to maintain peace, it is necessary ... to create a so-called 'position of strength'... The policy ... contains within itself the seeds of a new world war. The North Atlantic Military Alliance ... is directed against the U.S.S.R...
...Western peoples, continued Malik, were themselves suffering "the consequences of the policy of an armaments race . . . The only people to benefit from the armaments race are those who make enormous profits from military contracts . . . The Soviet Union threatens no one . . . The efforts of the Soviet people are directed toward peaceful construction. The Soviet state is ... expanding civilian industry . . . bringing into being the giant hydroelectric power stations and irrigation systems...
Then, after thus making mincemeat of the facts, Malik casually got down to the point...