Word: austine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delegate Warren Austin last week read to the Security Council the long-awaited "clarification of the U.S. position" on Palestine. After 20 minutes of Austin's ponderous prose, a fellow delegate summed up his remarks in this mocking sentence: "We must do nothing-and do it quickly...
Thin Distinction. "The Council's action," said Austin, "[must be] directed to keeping the peace and not to enforcing partition." The thin distinction would be easier to make in the Council chamber than in the embattled Holy Land. The comic effort to make it, however, followed logically from past U.S. efforts to please everyone, which had ended by pleasing no one. Zionists were crying traitor at the U.S. The U.S. position in the strategically important Arab world was hurt in ways that might cost years and possibly blood to repair...
...With Austin's speech the damage spread; it undercut the main line of U.S. policy in the U.N. For two years the U.S., faced with the Russian abuse of the Security...
...Austin now had to reverse the U.S. line: to whittle down the authority of the U.N. Assembly and to say that the Security Council was not and could not be responsible for enforcing the Assembly's political decisions...
...pipeline deal with the Arabian-American Oil Co., and Lebanon truculently announced that it would spike every concession until the U.S. injected a more neutral flavor into its Palestine policy. Oil men hastily marshalled their lobbies and actively joined the howling chorus against partition. In a few days Representative Austin announced to the U.N. that the United States would not support partition by force. However important the economic and strategic motives for this complete about face may seem to American statesmen, they do not, in any way, justify such a complete subjugation of morals to expediency...