Word: malik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia's yakking Jacob Malik (see cover), Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb demanded scornfully: "Are we really to believe that the boys from Iowa or Colorado who are now sitting in foxholes near Chin-ju . . . are out, like Genghis Khan, to enslave the world? Show me any one of these U.S. soldiers, Mr. President, who would rather reign in Outer Mongolia than go back to Seattle, and I will gladly concede your point about 'imperialist America.' Until then...
...name that went with the face was Jacob Malik. He appeared as a broad-shouldered, blond figure, slimmer on television than he actually is, with a hard-set jaw, impassive and unsmiling. Often he stared balefully at his unseen audience; sometimes he scribbled notes or leaned back to catch the whispers of three Russian aides sitting behind him. Hour after hour, in a dry voice that rarely rose in audible anger, meticulously using the same phrases and arguments, meticulously carrying out his orders, he lied...
...Hamstring & Delay. As the second week of Security Council meetings opened, under Malik's presidency, the first business should have been a discussion of North Korean aggression, with South Korean representatives taking part. But not with Malik presiding. That was why the Kremlin had sent him back to the U.N.-to hamstring, delay, obstruct, make sure that nothing was done...
Peace or War? Then Malik virtually served an ultimatum. If the U.N. persists in "illegal" decisions on Korea (i.e., any decision not agreed to by Red Russia, Red China or Red Korea), grave consequences would follow. "The issue," he blustered, "is one of peace...
...Council was not intimidated. Four times it voted, and four times Malik was defeated. The Council approved the U.S.-sponsored agenda which would make North Korean aggression this week's first order of business...