Word: austine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week at Lake Success, U.S. delegate Warren Austin finally dropped the other shoe...
...word speech, as turbid as the fine print in a lease, Delegate Austin announced that the U.S. had changed its mind on Palestine. The U.S. no longer supported partition. Instead, Austin declared, "My government believes that a temporary trusteeship for Palestine should be established . . .to maintain the peace [until] Jews and Arabs . . . reach an agreement regarding the future government of that country...
Edwin C. Jordan '50, Christopher Wright '49, and Paul L. Wright '49 are representing Harvard and the United States at the Chicago-sponsored model world-government meeting which will feature talks by Warren Austin, U. S. delegate to the U. N., Oscar Lange, Polish Ambassador to the U S., and Senator Claude Pepper...
...Warren Austin stood in the Security Council and offered peace as the reason. Immediately after his statement the Jews threatened to form a Hebrew State. The Arabs reiterated their determination to destroy it. It is evident that the only way that peace can be maintained in the Holy Land is through the agency of a U.N. force. Without this force warfare is inevitable; with it, partition will be as tranquil as trusteeship or any other proposal. Peace is not the answer...
...effect was another wave of indignation in Britain. Those Americans who had still hoped that the British could be persuaded to police the partition could hope no longer. The British would be out by May 15, and could hardly wait for the day to come. The U.S., judging from Austin's speech, had no idea of what to do next with the bloody mess it had stirred...