Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forced then to fall back on the Golden Gate. But primarily, Acheson deplored the timing. At that very moment, he reminded the group, the State Department was trying to get the United Nations, despite Malik, to adopt the neutralizing of Formosa as U.N.'s own formal policy. Warren Austin appeared to be making some progress along that line. MacArthur's statement would upset Acheson's policy...
While Malik droned on, the other ten delegates sat patiently around the horseshoe table. From the ceiling, television lights glared down on the high-domed head of Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, the pince-nez of the U.S.'s Warren Austin, the long nose of France's Jean Chauvel, the doodling hand of China's Tingfu F. Tsiang...
Then Warren Austin tried his hand. The week before, Austin had been flamboyant in gesture and voice. This time, on the advice of his aides, he held himself to a quieter, lower and more effective pitch (which also came across better on television). The chamber was tense and hushed as Austin spoke. All the faces around the Council table (except those of the Russians and the long, smart-aleck face of Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler) looked pleased; by the end Secretary General Trygve Lie wore a wide grin. Said Austin...
...Hope? At the next session, Warren Austin again leaned forward across the table, to deliver the longest speech of the day-more than an hour with its French interpretation. Said he: "To call [the North Korean aggressors] the representatives of the Korean people must be only a tragic witticism when addressed to those who know how quickly nationalism, patriotism and independence in other countries have been crushed to produce subservient puppet governments-zombie governments that breathe and speak and act, but have no soul.* The United Nations tried to peer through the mists that enshroud this regime. Nothing could...
...fans. Last week, in a shower of congratulatory telegrams, was one message: "Bravo, bravo. You and your delegation are a credit to civilization. The Gross Family, 824 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn." Said Sir Gladwyn: "I thought it must be Ernie Gross's family [Ambassador Ernest Gross is Warren Austin's second-in-command]. But when I asked him, I found that there are a great many people named Gross in America. Fancy that...