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...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...
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...
...horseshoe table. From the ceiling, television lights glared down on the high-domed head of Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, the pince-nez of the U.S.'s Warren Austin, the long nose of France's Jean Chauvel, the doodling hand of China's Tingfu F. Tsiang...
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...
Last January, Malik had walked out of the Council when Dr. Tingfu F. Tsiang of Nationalist China took the chair. Said Malik then: "I object to any ruling emanating from a person who represents nobody . . . This [is] not a meeting, but a parody of a meeting...