Word: malik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malik, the president of the Security Council, yielded the floor to Malik, the Soviet delegate. Once more he blamed the Korean war on U.S. "aggressors" and their South Korean "vassals." When that speech was over, Tsiang asked, with Confucian irony: "Now that the president of the Security Council has had the benefit of the wisdom of the representative of the Soviet Union, he should be in a position to give that ruling." The chamber echoed with laughter. Malik still stalled...
...While Malik droned on, the other ten delegates sat patiently around the horseshoe table. From the ceiling, television lights glared down on the high-domed head of Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, the pince-nez of the U.S.'s Warren Austin, the long nose of France's Jean Chauvel, the doodling hand of China's Tingfu F. Tsiang...
...When Malik had finished reading, the Council's majority moved hard, for the first time, to trip...
Questions & Answers. "Point of order!" called China's scholarly Dr. Tsiang. Malik had ignored the majority will, had refused to ask the South Korean delegate to the Council table (unless the North Koreans were invited, too). He knew that if he ruled against the delegation's admission, the Council majority would vote him down; so Malik simply refused to hand down a ruling. Tsiang burst out: "After a point of order is raised, the president must render a ruling...
...full minute, the audience in the visitors' gallery applauded (although applause is forbidden and almost never heard in U.N.'s sedate halls). Malik vainly pounded his gavel, furiously threatened to expel the public from the chamber...