Word: sumulong
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Council was "a spittoon, even worse than a spittoon-a cuspidor"; Nationalist China was "a corpse we have to cast right out of here, straight to hell." From places and things he descended to personalities: Syngman Rhee was "a throttler and choker of the Korean people," Philippine Delegate Lorenzo Sumulong "a jerk and a lackey," Dag Hammarskjold "a fool" and President Dwight Eisenhower "a liar." As for the United Nations itself, "the U.N. is the U.S., it's all one; after all, it's a branch of the State Department...
...midweek Khrushchev anxiously nursed forward the one Soviet issue that had any hope of winning a favorable U.N. vote: a resolution demanding immediate freedom for all colonies everywhere. One after another, Afro-Asian delegates marched to the podium to promise their votes. Then Philippine Delegate Lorenzo Sumulong urged that the resolution be widened to include discussion of "the inalienable right to independence of the peoples of Eastern Europe...
...among the Communist delegates. Rumania's Deputy Foreign Minister Eduard Mezincescu popped up on a point of order, and Khrushchev took off his shoe, waved it and pounded it. Then, apparently dissatisfied with Mezincescu's protest, Nikita Khrushchev strode briskly down the aisle to pour vituperation on Sumulong...