Evening star., 1950-08-06
Mr.. MoIik's Performance

the parliamentary delaying tactics and the
unblushing contempt for truth displayed by
Soviet Delegate Jakob A. Malik during his first
four days as president of the Security Council
for August leave little room for doubt that the
kremlin has broken its months long boycott of
the United Nations primarily for pVopagandistic
and dsruptive purposes. Certainly-up to the
present, at any rate-it has not offered even
the breath of a suggestion that it has the
slightest intention of cooperating with the
rest of the U. N. in the effort to put an end to
the criminal aggression of its North Korean
puppets
On the contrary, all that Mr.. Malik has done
SO far-and presumably he will return to the
same line when the Council resumes its meetings
on Tuesday-is to pervert reality into the oppo-
site of itself and threaten to veto any new
measure calculated to promote just, decent and
honorable settlement to re-establish peace in
Korea and make sure that that country will be
protected in the future from further Com
munist attack. Thus despite the Councils 8-to-3
vote defeating his dictatorial effort to oust
Nationalist China and seat the representatives
OF Peiping, he has continued to insist on that
change as precondition to Russian cooperation.
His latest proposal in that connection Is for
cease-fire, the withdrawal of foreign troops"
from the theater of action, and discussion with
the Chinese Reds and the Kremlin's North
Korean StoogeS as to how to end the war-a
plan which is not really plan, of course, but
merely move that would settle things on the
Soviet Unions terms and wholly in its favor.
Mr.. Malik undoubtedly is well aware that the
Council will have nothing to do with such
formula. Accordingly the fact that he has
advanced it may be viewed simply as further
evidence that his purpose as the Councils pres
iS t0 b,1t TO ol,St ,,cf
Other evidence along the same line is as obvious
as the nose on his face-for example, his un-
bending insistence that the u N. decisions of
June Is and 27 are illegal, and his vehement
mouthing of the colossal lie Cd that the virtually
disarmed Southern Koreans started the war,
CD that the Communists in the north Grained
by the Russians and equipped with Soviet tanks
and artillery have merely been defending them
selves against attack, and 80 that the United
States, even though 1t had no forces in the
country, unleashed the evil and is therefore
murderous villain guilty Of criminal aggression.
Mr.. Maliks remarks on this last point have been
unprecedentedly viruent and have equaled If
not surpassed, the best that Hitler and Goebbels
ever were able to achieve in turning the truth
upside down in an effort to represent black as
white and transvalue vice into shining virtue.
Since Mr.. Malik must know that this brazen
perversion of historical reality cannot fool any
part of the informed world his resort to it must
be aimed at spreading confusion among the
masses of Asia, further hoodwinking the peoples
behind the Iron Curtain and tying up the
Security Council in violent, time-wasting debate
"a kind of paralysis plan designed perhaps, to
immobilize the United Nations at moment
when some new aggression may be in the making
or to hold up additional action on Korea in
the hope that the Reds may push us out Of that
country before August ends.
Be all that as it may, however, the fact re-
mains that 50 of the SO members of the U. N.
stand legally, morally-and several of them
miitariy-on the side of truth and peace in this
fateful situation, while Russia and its satellites
stand on the side of falsehood and aggression.
Nothing Mr.. Malik may say or do during the
remainder of this month is likely to hide that
stain from the eyes of the overwhelming bulk
of mankind.