Word: tsiang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last week Dr. Ting-fu Tsiang, Nationalist China's representative on the U.N. Security Council, lost patience with Russia's Jacob Malik. The Russian representative, snapped Dr. Tsiang one day last week, "spends much of his superabundant energy in trying to prove to us that black is white and that white is black." Malik's retort made spectators grin: Tsiang's reference to black & white was "an insult to 14 million Negroes in the U.S." He added heavily: "White men, too, may have a black conscience and a black soul...
...midst of an otherwise humdrum U.N. week (see above), China's Dr. Tsiang Ting-fu, a distinguished history professor and "scholar in government" (Ph.D. from Columbia), delivered an arresting speech -in effect a lecture in history that none of Tsiang's colleagues would soon forget. The historian's target was a propaganda cliche interminably used by the Russians (and by a lot of Americans who should know better): "U.S. imperialism...
...Said Tsiang: "We in China divide . . . imperialists into two categories: the ocean devils and the land devils. Among the powers which came over the seas, in the first place, were Spain and Portugal; then came The Netherlands, Great Britain and France; still later came Germany and Italy. The one country which came to exploit and conquer Asia over land was Russia . . . The United States of America did not participate . . . The policy of the United States in the Far East was based on sound United Nations principles 50 years before these principles were embodied in the Charter of the United Nations...
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...
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...