so any way warren austin did give the speech which became as a bombshell because no one expected it, rabbi silver had speaking rights at the u.n. as a representative of the jewish agency and he got up after warren austin speech and said immediately and took the podium and said your speeches a shocking reversal of the american position, which in fact, it was. what the state department did was use truman's willingness to allow other things as a contingency if they have to be put in place temporarily as an excuse to develop a new policy. the secretary general of the un went to see warren austin and his apartment and told him to his face you issued a blow to the united nations and even the victorious laid not anti-semitic as it editorialized the u.s. was bowling to arab threats and warren austin speech was a shabby trick on the jewish community and palestine but one man who was not to worried was the grand old man of world zionism for hiro to the letter to a friend to ask his comment on warren austin speech, this is a stillborn project produced on the spur of the moment by a fertile brai

the head of the american delegation to the united nations was a man named warren g. austin. and warren g. austin was -- gave a few speeches, i'll concentrate on the most famous one in march. frita kearsewiggen was studying and talking to the all the delegates tu-u.n. warned truman that she thought the u.n. delegation in conjunction with the state department was planning to double-cross truman and that she had spoken to secretary of state robert lovett and that he was telling the press that state was beginning to take steps to revise partition and she warned truman in a couple of telegrams, they're really trying to double-cross you. austin prepared this speech in march. this is a speech that he is going to say among other things that trusteeship might be a possibility if and when it proves necessary. now, truman was given a draft of this statement and this is an issue of contention. what happened? austin said he gave truman a draft of what he was going to say. and that he had approved it. truman would later explain and most people argue that this, in fact, is what happened. th