Word: malik
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While the Philippines hoped to reach a settlement with the elusive Japanese (see above), Japan, in turn, was being teased along by Russia's Jacob Malik. In London, Ambassador Malik (who speaks Japanese) presented Chief Japanese Negotiator Shunichi Matsumoto with a peace treaty draft which hardly differed from the terms Japan rejected four years...
...Soviet Embassy mansion on London's Kensington Palace Gardens, known locally as "Millionaires' Row," Russia and Japan last week began their first high-level talks since the war. Russian Ambassador Yakov Malik, usually scowly, invited photographers into the Embassy's sacrosanct conference room and smilingly offered a cigarette to the Japanese Ambassador, Shunichi Matsumoto. The Japanese diplomat, who does not smoke, accepted the cigarette and beamed. "Very congenial," said Matsumoto afterwards. "The atmosphere is very warm...
...Malik saw disarmament proceeding in two stages...
...information concerning their respective armament and undertaking not to increase it, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Red China would agree to limit their armed forces to 1,500,000 men each, Britain and France to 650,000 men each. (These are the figures originally proposed by Britain, against Malik's previous stubborn insistence on one-third reduction all around, a proposal that favored the big armies of Russia and Red China.) In the first stage, nuclear nations would promise not to use nuclear weapons unless the Security Council decided they were acting "in defense against aggression. " The dismantling...
...inspection is the key to sincerity in nuclear disarmament. Malik's idea of an international authority was a staff of inspectors operating from "control posts in big ports, railroad junctions, motor roads and airdromes." These inspectors would "watch that there are no dangerous concentrations of ground forces or of air and naval forces," and "within the bounds of the control functions they exercise, would have unhindered access at any time to all objects of control." This kind of pretense at control lends itself to the absurdities of the truce inspection teams in Korea and Indo-China: unless the host...