Austin, Warren Robinson, 1877-1962

President Harry S. Truman is at the National Airport in Washington, D. C. where he is seeing off Secretary of State George Marshall and two delegates who are leaving to attend the Rio de Janeiro Conference of Foreign Ministers in Brazil. From left to right: Warren Austin, U. S. Representative to the United Nations; President Truman; Secretary Marshall; and Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) signs a bill authorizing a $65,000,000 loan for construction of a permanent United Nations Headquarters in New York City. At the White House ceremony are, from left to right: Secretary of State George C. Marshall; Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations; Byron Price, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations; New York City Mayor William O'Dwyer; Representative Charles A. Eaton; Warren Austin, United States Representative to the United Nations; Senator Tom Connally; and Representative Sol Bloom.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson (left) confers with Mrs. Edith Sampson and American United Nations' delegate Warren Austin, at the first meeting of the United Nations' General Assembly. Mrs. Sampson is the first Black American woman given a high U.N. post. She is an alternate delegate for the United States. From: Dean Acheson Papers.

Senator Warren R. Austin, Vermont, New U.S. United Nations Security Council Representative, shown with President Truman at the White House. From: Beth Gore

With the "Sacred Cow" in the background, Secretary of State George C. Marshall (left) and Warren Austin (right), U.S. Representative to the United Nations, are greeted by Brazilian Minister Raul Fernandes (center). They are in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to attend the Pan-American Conference of Foreign Ministers and the Inter-American Defense Conference. Please credit: "Maj. Jerome Eichholz, U.S. Air Force, courtesy Harry S. Truman Library."

Disembarking from a plane are (left to right) Senator Arthur Vandenburg, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Warren Austin, U.S. Representative to the United Nations; and George Marshall, Secretary of State, who flew to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the presidential plane the "Sacred Cow" to attend the Pan American Conference of Foreign Ministers and the Inter-American Defense Conference. Shaking hands with Senator Vandenburg is United States Ambassador to Brazil William Pawley, and Lt. Col. Austin is on his Pawley's left, shaking Warren Austin's hand. Please credit: "Maj.