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Died. Warren Robinson Austin, 85, onetime Republican Senator from Vermont and first U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; of pneumonia; in Burlington, Vt. In the Senate, Austin was an outspoken internationalist who championed lend-lease in 1941 with a thunderously applauded oration: "I say that a world enslaved to Hitler is worse than war, and worse than death." Appointed to the U.N. by Harry Truman, he was a rough-and-ready adversary of Soviet propaganda efforts. His most dramatic hour came in 1950 when he answered Moscow's attempt to charge the U.S. with aggression in Korea. Austin held...
Conservative v. Liberal. Judd, 64, is one of the Republican Party's most respected House voices on foreign affairs. An M.D. who spent ten years in China as a medical missionary, he is a fervent anti-Communist and an enthusiastic internationalist. Says Judd of his views on domestic issues: "I'm a conservative. I go to the Federal Government last, not first, unless there's no other way to get the job done. I am afraid of concentration of power in Washington or anywhere else, because this is the way people lose their freedom." He adds...
...vast seaside sports stadium at Brighton, he astonished his socialist "brothers" by the passion of his 84-minute speech. The middle-road intellectuals and union leaders who have shared his views and fought his battles sat back in ashen-faced disgust as Gaitskell, longtime champion of NATO and other internationalist policies, piped the party down the road to timorous isolation from Europe. Hugh Gaitskell's fiercest foes, the leftists who still repeat the late Aneurin Bevan's taunt that he is "a desiccated calculating machine," led tumultuous rounds of applause for every backward step he took...
...Senate gave the U.N. a convincing vote of confidence by authorizing President Kennedy to provide the hard-pressed organization with up to $100 million for its operations in the Congo and the Middle East. The 70-22 vote ended three months of argument in which Vermont's internationalist Republican Senator George Aiken led opposition to the President's request to buy 25-year bonds, insisting instead on a three-year loan. The adopted compromise (which Aiken agreed to) permits the President to do either. Hero of the occasion, from the Administration viewpoint, was none other than Republican Senate...
M.I.T. students this week passed up their first chance to elect an even mildly internationalist candidate as president of the Undergraduate Organization...