Word: malik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last week Dr. Ting-fu Tsiang, Nationalist China's representative on the U.N. Security Council, lost patience with Russia's Jacob Malik. The Russian representative, snapped Dr. Tsiang one day last week, "spends much of his superabundant energy in trying to prove to us that black is white and that white is black." Malik's retort made spectators grin: Tsiang's reference to black & white was "an insult to 14 million Negroes in the U.S." He added heavily: "White men, too, may have a black conscience and a black soul...
...said it should be sent direct to U.N. Then the Russians delivered the note to the State Department in Washington by a messenger who spoke no English; it was promptly returned by a messenger who spoke no Russian. When U.N. ruled that the note was in its province, Malik did not challenge the ruling...
Freed from the month-long paralysis of Malik's presidency, the Security Council acted on three resolutions during the week. Warren Austin argued that the shooting in the Yellow Sea made it more urgent than ever to adopt the U.S. resolution condemning North Korea for its "continued defiance" of U.N. and calling on "all states to refrain from assisting or encouraging the North Korean authorities and to refrain from action which might lead to the spread of the Korean conflict...
...Austin won a 9-1 vote, but the lone negative by Malik vetoed his proposal. It was Russia's 44th veto...
...Malik's vituperation could not get a single supporter for his resolutions calling for 1) withdrawal of "foreign troops" from Korea, and 2) a condemnation of the U.S. for "inhuman, barbarous bombing...