Malik Says Report Is “Provocative”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23352, 7 September 1950, Page 7

Malik Says Report Is “Provocative”

(10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 6. M. Jacob Malik, the Soviet delegate in the Security Council, yesterday called the report that a Russian airman was shot down in the Korean war a “provocative statement made by General MacArthur and the War Department.” The plane incident was reported to the Council by the chief United States delegate, Mr. Warren Austin, who said

that Russia appeared to have been trying to increase tension between Communist China and the nations fighting the North Koreans. M. Malik declared that the plane incident had been brought forward to facilitate United States efforts to spread aggression in Korea. M. Malik added: “As the place for this provocation the sea was chosen in order to make it easier to conceal the rather sharp corners of the whole matter.” Russian experts at _ Lake Success were unable to explain what was meant by “sharp corners.” M. Malik spoke at length of the ‘barbarous bombing” of Korean towns by United Nations’ planes. He asked the Council to reject the American resolution which, he said, was _ merely designed to cover up “American _ aggression against the Korean people.” The resolution is the one left hanging in the air when M. Malik took over as the Council president for August. It condemns the North Korean authorities for their continued defiance of the Security Council and calls on all countries to refrain from assisting or encouraging the North Koreans.