Word: austine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assembly, U.S. Chief Delegate Warren Austin rose to answer Molotov. He mounted the rostrum with slow but agile dignity, and lowered his white-topped, ruddy-cheeked head in a courtly bow to the chairman. Then he began to speak slowly, deliberately, with imperturbable poise. He quickly made three things clear: 1) the U.S. would support Russia's disarmament proposal, provided that disarmament was internationally inspected; 2) the U.S. would support Russia's stand against abolishing the veto (though limiting its use was desirable); 3) the U.S. had no objections to revealing the size of its armies at home...
...rest of his solid, well-balanced speech, Austin ignored Molotov's charges, expressed quiet optimism about U.N.'s achievements. The commissars from the Armenian mountains and the lawyers from the jungle's fringe, the princes of the Arabian desert and the polemicists from the Balkan cafés looked at the immaculate, stocky figure with varying degrees of understanding. Warren Robinson Austin, ex-Senator from Vermont, the President's Special Representative to the General Assembly, was the U.S.'s new Ambassador to the World...
Then the committee by an eight to three vote the proposal of former Senator Warren it. Austin, Chief V. S. delegate, opening the headquarters question to include invitations from New York City and San Francisco. There was one abstention...
South African affair. Russia's Andrei Vishinsky countered that the minority dispute concerned all nations. Vishinsky insisted that the South-West Africa question be excluded from discussion. After the U.S.'s new chief delegate, Senator Warren Austin, watchfully assisted by Adviser John C. Ross (whom one newsman called the delegation's "invisible quarterback"), made a placatory speech, Vishinsky withdrew his objections...
...that the General Committee was expected to act on the veto, both Austin and Vishinsky arrived early. In a corner of the committee room they talked earnestly through their interpreters. Later, Vishinsky reversed his stand, declared that Russia would not oppose discussion of the matter by the Assembly. The Russians were not taking any risk; Vishinsky knew Austin would not support drastic changes in the veto power...