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...American International Corp. retained him for a big job in China: negotiation of a $130 million loan for railway and canal construction. The trip to the Orient became part of Austin's broadening horizon of travel; at other times, on bar-association or diplomatic business, he has also been to Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Near East and the Philippines...
Against Big Government. At 53, the counselor decided to haul in his shingle and toss his hat once more into the political ring. Dubbing himself the "young guard," Austin defied his state's Republican machine, won a bitterly contested primary, thus assured his election as U.S. Senator. He went to Washington in 1931 and stayed on, winning two re-elections...
...Deal aged and World War II cast its shadow, Austin became more & more absorbed in the crucial debate between isolationism and internationalism...
...Austin has paraphrased the gist of Haldane's remarks in these words: "If you are walking down a street and you move aside, just a bit, to avoid jostling a neighbor-what made you move aside? Was it a law that forced you to move? No. You had simply learned to exercise your own independence without disturbing your neighbor. That is the higher ethics...
World War I jostled out the Era, of Good Manners. Austin thought the League of Nations doomed because it leaned on self-discipline and "the higher ethics" instead of enforcement power. In 1937 he called for a U.S. alliance with the League to impose sanctions against Japan. A year later he told isolationist Chicago: "Isolationism is impossible. We are inextricably involved in the affairs of the world...