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...last as president. All month long he had introduced one irrelevant resolution after another, to give himself fresh springboards for propaganda. Now he introduced two more, one denouncing "the unprovoked, barbaric attacks" of U.S. planes on China, and the other, "monarcho-fascist terrorism in Greece." With savage suavity, Jebb labeled these two items for what they were, Jebb called Malik's charge of U.S. aggression a document "beneath contempt, except for its only obvious use, namely, its distribution as a propaganda leaflet." Of Malik's resolution on Greece, Jebb said: "For the representative of a country which maintains...
...Chairman. The following day, in an equally caustic mood, Sir Gladwyn took over the Council presidency for September. He promptly broke through the roadblock set up by Malik. Before the session was 60 seconds old, Britain's Jebb invited South Korea's patient John M. Chang to sit with the Council during its discussion of North Korean aggression. Malik waved for attention, snapped his fingers, called "point of order" twice in English. But Jebb kept eyes on Chang until the Korean was seated at the table. Then Malik got the floor...
...usual, the Russian objected to the seating of a South Korean without equal representation for the North Koreans. His arguments were the same lie-studded ones he had delivered before. Three times he spoke lengthily, then when he sought the floor for a fourth time, Jebb snapped: "I suppose you could go on making your arguments forever." Malik said he needed only "one sentence" this time. Jebb's retort was rapier-quick: "I would be delighted to hear a speech of one sentence from the Soviet Union representative." The audience laughed and cheered. Malik flushed. Jebb let the noise...
Final Word. When Jebb called for a vote, everyone but Malik favored a seat for Chang. Then, Jebb gave Chang the floor and the final word of the week...
...Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, this month's president of the U.N. Security Council, is tall (6 ft. 2 in.), greying (50 years), well-tailored and crisply spoken. He is also a top man in the British Foreign Office hierarchy and a solid man in his country's squirearchy...