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...came a report that Mao Tse-tung had decided to send 150,000 men of his Second Field Army, plus 60,000 "irregulars," to replace losses in Korea. Commanding the new troops was one of Red China's top generals, Liu Po-cheng, famed as the "One-Eyed Dragon...
Among Warren Austin's more vivid memories is his maternal grandfather Robinson. The vinegary old Vermonter, when aroused, used to terrify his grandson with a cryptic and thunderous shout: "The Dragon! The Dragon...
What the expletive meant, the boy Warren never 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...
...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...