Last Fling

This week Jacob Malik will celebrate the end of his month as president of the U.N.'s Security Council with the customary dinner given by the retiring president to his colleagues. The affair will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria. "We'll have a good meal," predicted one delegate last week, "some irrelevant talk--and the party will break up about 45 minutes after coffee."

All last week Jacob Malik kept on stalling the Security Council with talk irrelevant to the main business on hand--the free nations' complaint against Communist aggression in Korea. In his longest diatribe of the month (with translations into English and French, it took 3 hours 23 minutes), he emptied once more his bag of big lies. Among them:

The U.S. is the "crude, ruthless, barbarous, imperialistic" aggressor in Korea. It is guilty of "ruthless, intolerable, illegal and barbarous bombing . . . against the peaceful population." It is intervening in "a civil war." It has tried to enslave Korea "into a colony of American monopolies." It is also trying to "stifle the lawful aspirations of ... the Chinese people, the Viet Nam people, and other people in Asiatic countries who are striving for freedom and national independence."

The U.S.'s Warren Austin of Vermont thought of his orchards as he struck back: "When the housewife cans her fruits and vegetables in the fall, she puts a label on each jar before storing it away in the cellar. If she puts the label 'Peaches' on a jar containing applesauce, the label doesn't magically change the contents. One can quickly test the label by opening the jar and sampling the real thing inside . . . Sir, I am in a position to open that falsely labeled jar and let the world see what is inside--applesauce."

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