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...martial law, had it typed under guard. Assured that the troops were in position, Mirza issued his orders. "I have no sanction of law or of constitution," he told reporters. "I have only the sanction of my conscience." At 11 p.m. he sent a personal note to Prime Minister Malik Firoz Khan Noon informing him that his government had been dissolved...
...13th U.N. General Assembly opened in Manhattan last week, Lebanese Foreign Minister Charles Malik shook off the last-minute challenge of the Nasser-led Arab League, which put forward the Sudan's Foreign Minister as a rival "Arab" candidate, and with strong backing from the U.S. won election as Assembly President by a comfortable 45-to-31 vote...
Political Career. Named the republic of Lebanon's first minister to Washington and delegate to the U.N.'s founding conference in San Francisco, he helped draft the U.N. Covenants on Human Rights, won a name in the U.S. as "the good Malik" to distinguish him from Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik. Returning in 1955 to his Beirut university post, he was called back to public life as President Chamoun's Foreign Minister after the Suez crisis, charged with carrying out a policy that allied Lebanon more closely with the West than ever before. Though...
Ideas & Principles. Philosopher Malik calls himself "an Aristotelian realist." He believes profoundly that man exists by religious faith. He is probably the only Foreign Minister who ever urged Westerners to "love" the people of the Middle East as a basis of their foreign relations. In one U.N. speech, he criticized the Communists for "the spiritual enslavement" of man but at the same time condemned the West for being "repulsively materialistic." If the "wonderful springs of the mind and the spirit in American existence" can "be tapped and mediated to the rest of the world," says Malik, a "spiritualized materialism" might...
...Karachi's Frere Gardens, a group of prominent citizens gathered to do honor to Prime Minister Malik Firoz Khan Noon, a man given to unexpected remarks. They were not disappointed. Jovial Prime Minister Noon, 65, suddenly declared: "Afghanistan and Iran are our closest neighbors, and we all are Moslem brethren. If they desire to confederate with us, I, for my part, am prepared...