Evening star., 1952-03-28
Mendocity Unlimited


manner, Deputy Soviet Foreign Minister Jacob
A. Malik has served notice that when the Krem-
4 lin cuts loose with q big lie-which Is something
that happens nearly all the time nothing could
be more impertinent, or inconSiderate, than.
proposals to stage an impartial Investigation
In an EFFORT to arrive at some semblance Of
the truth.
The lie in this particular instance Is that
the United States has been waging germ warfare
In North Korea and Red China. The Commu-
mist propaganda machine in every country be-
hind the Iron Curtain has been peddling the
charge in great volume for weeks past Our
State Department has issued unqualified denials.
Trygve Lie, Secretary General Of the United
Nations, has branded the accusation as utterly
false. And the U. N Korean command has done
likewise. with the added suggestion that the
whole dirty business may have been fabricated
as q "cover-up" for q colossally stupid failure
by the enemy to take commons sense precau-
tions against the danger Of epidemics stemming
from natural causes.
Despite all this, however, the Kremlin-with
the echoing support OF its stooge propagandists
in Red China and every other satellite land
has not only continued to publicize the lie to
the greatest extent possible but has also sought
to dignity it by having Malik spew it forth be-
fore the U. N. Disarmament Commission in New
York. The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
has been doing his job with consummate brazen-
ness. Poker-faced, and apparently not the least
bit ashamed of being obliged to debase himself
in public by publicly assaulting the truth, he
has doggedly kept on accusing the United States
of employing meteorological weapons against
the Chinese and North Koreans Above every
thing, with the aplomb of man accustomed to
having his mendacity accepted without question,
he has blandly scorned repeated challenges to
submit the Soviet charges to an objective inter-
national inquiry.
Thus, wholly apart from the fact that the
Kremlin has completely ignored an offer by the
U. N. World Health Organization to help cope
with q reported epidemic in North Korea,
Malik-speaking for his government-has hatly
rejected proposal by the international Conn
mittee Of the Red Cross to hold an on-tl1e-
scene investigation to determine whether or not
any germ warfare has been waged. This pro-
posals has been heartily welcomed by the United
States, but the Malik response, besides refusing
the challenge, has taken the form of an indig-s
nant smear attack on the integrity Of group
whose honesty and impartiality are unquestioned.
in civilized lands. The Soviet position Is that
the inquiry, II any, must be by the Disarmament
Commission, where the Russian delegate can
continue to obstruct the proceedings with propa-
ganda speeches compounded, from beginning to
end, of monumental lies.
s As far as the free world is concerned, such
mendacity speaks for itself rs q measure of the
Soviet character. Unfortunately however,
among the blindfolded peoples behind the Iron
Curtain, it can be effective, and there is not
much we can do about it. But within the U. N.
itself, when Malik or his colleague again mouth
their poison, American and like-minded dele
gates can refuse to listen. They can show their
contempt by walking out Conceivably-just
conceivably-the gesture might shame the
Kremlin into being at least little less lavish
with its falsehoods.