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...knew. Last week, six decades later, he could wonder if his grandfather, who was something of a family oracle, might not have been crying a prophecy. In the forum of the U.N. the dragon of Communism snarls and spits and spreads its terror. Destiny, framed by TV, thrust Warren Austin spang before the threatening beast. To millions of U.S. televiewers, at least, he became-more than any other ambassador at Lake Success-the voice, conscience and counsel of the free world...
Dragon fighters, especially from Vermont, should be lean, crabby, clipped and pithy in speech. Listening to the invective of Communist spokesmen, Austin could be as grimly attentive as Hawthorne's Great Stone Face. There, any resemblance to the legendary Yankee ends...
...Israel crisis, when he urged disputatious Arabs and Jews to get together and "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit." He cannot match India's Sir Benegal Rau in subtlety and sophistication. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb is his superior in verbal riposte. But Austin sallies into U.N.'s polemic fray with certain granitelike inner qualities: tenacity, common sense, Old Testament righteousness, and a God-fearing faith in the cause of freedom and collective security...
...Austin's approach to his task is measured by his words to the Senate when he was appointed to U.N. in 1946. A Republican internationalist, chosen by a Democratic President and acclaimed by both parties, he responded: "I go with such determination to work for the cause, and such will to throw everything I have, and that God may give me in the future, into that cause, that I fear it not. It is like a divine dispensation...to serve my country and serve mankind...
...Even with a Battle-Ax." Austin does not make U.S. policy in the U.N. That is the job of the State Department, consulting with the President...