UNITED NATIONS: Borderline Cases

Early last week Dr. Ting-fu Tsiang, Nationalist China's representative on the U.N. Security Council, lost patience with Russia's Jacob Malik. The Russian representative, snapped Dr. Tsiang one day last week, "spends much of his superabundant energy in trying to prove to us that black is white and that white is black." Malik's retort made spectators grin: Tsiang's reference to black & white was "an insult to 14 million Negroes in the U.S." He added heavily: "White men, too, may have a black conscience and a black soul."

For two days Malik, consistently...

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