Word: malik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week members of the U.N. Security Council bowed to the intransigence of Red China's General Wu Hsiu-chuan (see WAR IN ASIA) and wound up their discussion of the Korean and Formosan questions. Fatalistically, the representatives of the free world heard Russia's Jacob Malik veto a resolution ordering Communist China to end her intervention in Korea...
...been spent in largely piecing together and reconciling the views of MacArthur in Tokyo with those of diplomatic and military men in Washington. A draft was submitted to the dozen other Pacific Allies in World War II; Dulles personally handed Russia's copy to Soviet Delegate Jacob A. Malik in New York City last month. Not until last week did Moscow's reply arrive. In diplomatic routine, it was simply a memorandum which, like the original U.S. proposals, did not commit anyone to anything. Sample of its tone: "An explanation is desired as to whether . . . the possibility exists...
...head of the Chinese procession strode General Wu Hsiu-chuan, director of the U.S.S.R. and Eastern European Division of the Peking Foreign Office. Waiting at the airport customs shed Wu & friends found Russia's Jacob Malik. As he gave Wu the glad hand, Malik drew a sheaf of papers from his pocket and handed them to the Chinese leader. A few minutes later Wu distributed the same papers among waiting newsmen. On each sheet was a copy of what purported to be Wu's own first public statement to peace-loving people...
Later the same day seven members of the Chinese delegation marched in for their Security Council meeting. The Chinese listened intently for 2½ hours while Russia's Malik and U.S. Delegate Warren Austin argued whether the Council should discuss the Formosan question alone or the Korean and Formosan problem jointly. In the end the U.S. view that Formosa and Korea should be discussed simultaneously won out, and it was agreed to seat the Chinese Reds at the Council table. In one weekend, the Chinese Reds had punched a 20-mile hole in the U.N. line in Korea...
...make sure that the U.N. would do nothing but mark time until the delegation from Red China arrived. U.S. Delegate John Foster Dulles persuaded the Political & Security Committee to postpone indefinitely its scheduled debate on the future status of Formosa. In the Security Council, Russia's Jacob Malik threatened to use his veto power if the Council were asked to vote on a resolution proposed a week earlier by the U.S. and five other powers. Although the resolution was intended primarily to quiet Chinese Communist suspicions of U.N. aims in Korea, Malik denounced it because it also contained...