Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open to take the problem of Chinese aggression into the veto-free U.N. General Assembly. To find out what the U.S would ask of the Assembly, U.S. Delegate Warren Austin hurried to Washington, spent two hours taking stock with Dean Acheson. This week Austin joined with delegates of five other powers to ask that the Assembly take up the question of "Intervention of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China in Korea...
Later the same day seven members of the Chinese delegation marched in for their Security Council meeting. The Chinese listened intently for 2½ hours while Russia's Malik and U.S. Delegate Warren Austin argued whether the Council should discuss the Formosan question alone or the Korean and Formosan problem jointly. In the end the U.S. view that Formosa and Korea should be discussed simultaneously won out, and it was agreed to seat the Chinese Reds at the Council table. In one weekend, the Chinese Reds had punched a 20-mile hole in the U.N. line in Korea...
...nominate Warren Austin, of whom all Vermont as well as the Western world is proud. At a critical moment when the U.N. needed new life and hope, Warren Austin gave it in his courageous stand against the Russians and in his typical Vermont way of telling the truth bluntly...
Despite their grumping, Austin and Malik found themselves in rare agreement when it came time for a vote on the British resolution. Both men raised their hands in favor of the proposal, which passed by a vote...
...Born in Austin, Texas in 1908, Key received his A.B. from the University of Texas and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins in 1938, rising to the chairmanship of the Department of Political Science...