Word: zorin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hammarskjold, intoned Zorin, "the Secretary-General has directly participated in the collective plans of the colonizers whose final goal is to stifle the young African republic . . . there is not the slightest justification for considering that he has seen the light and is prepared to change his course." Zorin's target was as much the office of Secretary-General as the man who occupied it. Last October, during Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging visit to the General Assembly, the Soviet Premier had proclaimed his dislike of Hammarskjold ("We do not trust Mr. Hammarskjold and cannot trust him"), demanded that...
...Zorin attacked him, Hammarskjold sat toying with a pencil or puffing on a cigarette. Russia, said Zorin, would henceforth refuse to have any dealing with Hammarskjold, would address all business to a Deputy Secretary-General, Russia's Georgy Arkadev. It was a gambit that the Russians had also tried on Hammarskjold's predecessor, Trygve Lie, who lost Russia's favor in 1950 when he supported the U.N.'s defense of South Korea. Lie weathered Moscow's snubs until November 1952, but finally found it impossible to continue in his post...
Turning to the Congo, Stevenson jabbed back at Zorin. He reminded the Council that Patrice Lumumba himself had first asked the U.S. for troops to restore order, and the U.S. told him to appeal to the U.N. Stevenson noted tartly: "We rejoice to hear the Soviet denounce political assassination with such vehemence . . . We condemn any death without due process of law, whether of African politicians, Hungarian patriots, or Tibetan nationalists ... As to colonialism, my country fought colonialism in 1776 . . . and my countrymen have died to end colonialism in Cuba, though some Cubans seem to have forgotten...
When Adlai Stevenson told Soviet Delegate Zorin about the plan, mentioning lightly that India and Nigeria-two conspicuous Afro-Asian names-might introduce it as a resolution, the Russian seemed startled: "What's that, what's that?" he barked at the interpreter. "Repeat that about India and Nigeria." He knew Moscow could not come out flatly against any scheme with wide support among the Asians and Africans...
...answer is that Russia wants nothing, no body, no agreement, no group of nations capable of hampering any adventure or pursuit the Kremlin might have in mind. Though the Russians value the U.N. as a propaganda forum, they have no interest in a U.N. with power to act (Zorin was quick to point out that he had nothing against the U.N. itself, only against its executive officer). Even if the present attack is beaten back, it has served the Russians' purpose in intimidating Hammarskjold...