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...Austin is no mere mouthpiece. State wants and expects his advice on policy, and he gives it. So far, says Foggy Bottom, there have been no "disputes," only "discussions" between Austin and the Washington policymakers. The Ambassador's foremost chore is to present and advocate the policy ultimately approved by Harry Truman. He and a battery of aides, topped by able Ambassador Ernest Gross, have the important corollary task of canvassing, negotiating and lobbying among other U.N. groups...
...Austin thus functions in a tightly controlled compass. His effectiveness depends largely on the effectiveness of U.S. foreign policy. When that policy emerged clear and firm, as it did during the North Korean invasion last summer and during last week's debate over the moral condemnation of Red China (see above), Austin's performance was eloquent and forceful. When policy seemingly vacillated, as earlier this month in Washington's order for its U.N. delegation to approve an appeasing petition to Peking, Austin's hand appeared palsied...
Above & beyond immediate issues, Austin is a U.N. rock of confidence. He never falters in his belief that the U.N. is on the way to One World, tolerant and peaceful. Last week he would not admit that U.N.'s timidity in the face of Chinese Communist aggression has any ominous resemblance to the League of Nations' historic breakdown when confronted by Japanese aggression in Manchuria and Italian aggression in Ethiopia. "You can't kill the United Nations, even with a battle-ax," he insists. "The people of the world would never allow this organization to quit...
...Alienation of Affection. When Warren Robinson Austin was a village boy (birthplace: Highgate, pop. 300), his dragon-swearing grandfather predicted: "Warren, you'll never amount to anything. You have 20 irons in the fire at once and you never finish any of them." Austin never forgot how he ran out to the barn to weep on the neck of his favorite horse. "When I could talk," he remembers, "I told that horse and myself that I'd never start anything in life I couldn't finish...
...would use in court. A spellbinder before juries, he won the celebrated alienation-of-affection suit known as Woodhouse v. Woodhouse. For his client, a lowly soap salesman's daughter wooed and won, then spurned, by the son of one of Vermont's wealthiest, haughtiest families, Austin wangled a record jury award: $465,000, a high price for affection-especially in Vermont. (The judge cut it down...