Warren Robinson Austin: A Reluctant Cold Warrior
Journal: ScholarWorks -A service of University of Vermont Libraries (University of Vermont)
Year: 2019

Senator Warren Robison Austin (R-VT) was appointed by President Harry S. Truman to be the US Representative to the United Nations in June 1946. While a member of the US Senate, Austin had been a great advocate for internationalism and the United Nations. His tenure as Representative lasted until January 1953. The growing pains of the new organization were complicated by myriad contentious problems, not the least of which was the dawning of the Cold War. Austin was caught between the Soviet deleg