Word: yakov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oppressed Redskins. For more than an hour, Russia's bland, hulking Delegate Yakov A. Malik tried to keep the inquiry off the agenda. The case of the "Traitor Mindszenty," he argued, was of concern to Hungary only; the U.S. attempt to bring it before the Assembly was merely a move by the "ruling circles [of America] to boss other people around in their own homes." Moreover, cried Malik, the U.S. was trying to cover up its own sins of oppression, the trials of "political [Communist] leaders," the lynching of Negroes and the "pitiful plight" of the American Indians...
Russia's Yakov Malik, who has himself repeatedly told U.N. to go jump into Lake Success, was mightily indignant at The Netherlands' defiance of the council's authority. His similes were not up to Andrei Vishinsky's high standards, but he did his best. Cried Malik: "The Dutch reply is a cynical request by an aggressor for two or three days more to kill off his victims completely . . . Do the U.S. and Britain intend, like Pontius Pilate, to wash their hands of the matter...
...York, Yakov A. Malik arrived on the Queen Mary, to replace Andrei A. Gromyko as Russia's chief delegate to the United Nations. Few passengers knew that he had been aboard. Cornered in his cabin, he told ship news reporters: "I am Malik, I am glad to meet you, but I have no comment." A sandy-haired, broad-shouldered man of medium height, Malik had been well schooled in Russia's robot diplomacy. He had served as Russia's wartime ambassador to Japan, most recently as deputy foreign minister for Far Eastern Affairs. What comment...
Last week, Lake Success was awaiting his successor, Yakov Alexandrovich Malik, former Soviet Ambassador to Japan, and wondering if he would be any different-outwardly...
...Maxim Litvinov, longtime Soviet Foreign Commissar and Ambassador to the U.S., was "released from his duties" as Deputy Foreign Minister. Into his shoes stepped the former Soviet Ambassadors to Britain and Japan, Fedor Gusev and Yakov Malik...