Word: maliks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians decided that staying out of U.N. was doing them more harm than good. Last week, Russian Delegate Jacob Malik, a Russian career diplomat with a clean-cut, almost American-looking face, was back. It was Russia's turn to preside over the Council for a month, and Malik, through his first week in the chair, made the most of the chance...
...Russian had hardly seized the gavel when he pounced back to the issue over which he had walked out. The Nationalist Chinese delegate, Malik "ruled," had no right to sit in the Council, since he did not represent the Chinese people. When the U.S. and friends challenged this arbitrary ruling, Malik tried another tack. He submitted a provisional agenda which blandly ignored the rule of taking up unfinished business left over from the preceding session (a U.S. resolution condemning North Korean aggression). Malik proposed two items of his own: the seating of Communist China in the U.N., and "peaceful settlement...
...Cried Malik: "American ruling circles . . . endeavor to base their whole policy towards other peoples on a dictatorship of domination and compulsion, which they camouflage with hypocritical references to democracy . . . By democracy they mean the natural and unlimited power of domination by a small, cruel and power-loving handful of millionaires...
...Attacked? Malik hammered away. The real aggressors in Korea, he cried, were the South Korean government and its American masters. They had first invaded North Korea. To prove U.S. instigation, he waved aloft a news picture of State Department Adviser John Foster Dulles with other American officials and South Korean army men in South Korean trenches.-"This picture shows," cried Malik, "that the aggression of the United States Government in Korea has been the result of a long-hatched plan . . . Hardly any member of the Security Council will contend that Mr. Dulles [was] in those trenches gathering violets...
...Briton caused Malik's face to redden as he derided "the queer, upside-down language . . . employed by U.S.S.R. propaganda . . . We really do seem to be living in a rather nightmarish Alice-in-Wonderland world...