Word: austin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letters of congratulation from prominent world statesmen poured in as the group got underway. Wrote Senator Warren R. Austin, D.S. Delegate to the U. N. Security Council and Chairman of the American delegation to the U. N. General Assembly, wrote. "May I extend every best wish for a vigorous and effective organization in our guest cause...
Meanwhile Russell Austin, chairman of the American delegation to Prague and head of the University of Chicago AVC chapter, outlined the general aims of the forthcoming organization: "In American colleges and universities today there are issues which concern students directly and are of great importance. A nationally representative student organization can provide both a medium for the widest interchange of ideas among students and a basis for unified action on issues where general agreement is found to exist...
Practice & Faith. Warren Austin was not what the world generally considered a typical American. He appeared reticent, formal, gentle, oldfashioned, a man of controlled emotions and clear purposes. He was born in 1877 in Highgate Center (pop. 500 at the time), among the green, hard hills of Vermont. He read the Bible, Lincoln, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, was fullback at the University of Vermont. Later, he settled down to the life of a small-town lawyer. In 1931, he was elected to the Senate, where, after 1939, he labored long & hard for aid to the Allies...
...Austin, a tireless worker, has unflagging enthusiasm for U.N. Says he: "Practice, difficult at first, will develop into custom, custom into faith. . . ." Though an idealist (and a sentimentalist at times), Austin has a hard Yankee core, and likes to win. But, says he: "The will to win should generate the will to do justice...
Harding & Hootchy-Kootchy. Austin's teammates in the U.S. delegation: ¶| Thomas Terry Connally, 69, Democratic Senator from Texas and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has a much sharper mind than his flowing white mane, flowing string tie and flowing oratory indicate. ¶ Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg. 62, Republican Senator from Michigan, a harness maker's son, who got into politics via journalism by helping Isolationist Warren Harding write campaign speeches, and who has become (with Secretary Byrnes) the architect of practical postwar U.S. internationalism...