Word: malik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just 22 hours before the anniversary of the day on which the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob Malik faced a microphone on the U.N.'s Price of Peace program. His text clanked along on familiar Communist lines until, at the end of the broadcast, came the words that caused the world to prick up its ears: Russia was proposing a Korea armistice. Did it mean that the Communists had had enough...
...London, Paris and Tokyo. The proposal was highly unspecific (see WAR IN ASIA) ; it seemed to be more than mere peace propaganda, less than an offer. A speech which President Truman had prepared to deliver in Tennessee was hurriedly rewritten, and this week, in two short paragraphs, without mentioning Malik, he gave Russia the U.S.'s fast answer...
...throwing his peace grenade, Russia's Malik had chosen his time well. These factors made for maximum effect: 1) it was the week in which General Ridgway had firmly asked the United Nations for more ground troops, a request that had been heard with markedly little enthusiasm; 2) it was the week in which the West had broken off Paris talks, and Russia was temporarily without a seat at any active negotiations table...
...Price of Peace (Sat. 6:15 p.m., CBS). Guest: Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik...
Other speakers at the symposia will include Charles Malik, Lebanese representative ot the United Nations, Karl T. Compton, chairman of the National Research and Development Board during the war and M. I. T. president, and General Lucius D. Clay, now with the Office of Defense Mobilization...