Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Believe..." With a grim weariness, the President read off a sharp, carefully worded statement on China: "Ambassador Austin has fully and forcefully presented the views of this Government...toward aggression by the Chinese Communists...Each member of the United Nations must make its own decision on this issue." Then, his voice twanging like a bowstring, the President leaned forward. "For my part," he said, biting off each word, "I believe in calling an aggressor an aggressor...This is the time for clear thinking and firmness...
Among Warren Austin's more vivid memories is his maternal grandfather Robinson. The vinegary old Vermonter, when aroused, used to terrify his grandson with a cryptic and thunderous shout: "The Dragon! The Dragon...
...open the way for admission of Communist China to U.N. It called for an immediate conference with Peking, while the fighting in Korea continued. Purpose: to get "all necessary elucidations and amplifications" of Peking's latest message to the U.N. relayed by India. That message, which Warren Austin had bitingly called "not much more than a postal card," had in effect notified U.N. that Peking would agree to a cease-fire only on its own terms (i.e., withdrawal of U.N. troops, admission of Red China to U.N., handing Formosa to the Reds...
...Burden of Morality. When it was Warren Austin's turn, he read a few sentences from his typewritten, heavily corrected text, then suddenly looked up and, off the cuff, tore into the "Soviet bloc who cannot open their mouths in this committee without giving vent to hatred of all independent countries." After he calmed down, Austin sharply and simply defined the issue before...
Soon after the session opened, Austin read the U.S. draft resolution: "The General Assembly . . . finds that [Red China] . . . has . . . engaged in aggression . . ." The resolution called for continued U.N. action in Korea, requested the Assembly...