BATTLE OF LAKE SUCCESS: Junior S.O.B.

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Malik's lying propaganda is heard by millions around the world, and splinters of Russia's Big Lie are bound to bury themselves in the brains of the gullible. But nothing that Malik says can equal the impact of what the U.N. and the U.S. are doing in Korea. That action speaks louder than Malik's loudest lies.

The Double Lock. This week began with the majority pressing its counteroffensive. France's Chauvel derided Malik's lies as a case of "pointing to a chair and calling it a table." Then India's Rau made an unexpected move. He suggested that the Council's six small powers form a committee to draft a Korean peace plan; he added that India would stick by her insistence that peace must depend on a withdrawal of the North Koreans to the 38th parallel. Malik, for once, had nothing to say.

At the end of the week's first session, in his usual way, he gathered up his papers, shoved them into a briefcase, locked it and handed it to an aide, who put it into a larger briefcase and locked that too. Then Jacob Malik walked stiffly from the Council chamber.

On U.S. television screens, to the boundless relief of impatient moppets, the daily images of Jacob Malik at U.N. faded in time for Captain Video and his Video Rangers. The captain, as usual, was hip-deep in his fight against a vicious-voiced enemy agent. Captain Video was, occasionally, hard-pressed, but the kids were not fooled. The enemy was bound to lose in the end.