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They met in an effort to frame a Republican approach to the European Recovery Program-an approach which would differ somewhat from Senator Vandenberg's participation in the so-called bipartisan foreign policy. Republicans wanted to make sure that whatever total amount was appropriated for ERP was really necessary, and that the administration of ERP would be in competent hands. They also wanted to find a way in which the Republican Congress could put its label on the plan...
Even Arthur Vandenberg, staunchest champion of a bipartisan foreign policy, was not committed to ERP in its entirety. This week the President agreed to one Vandenberg suggestion: the Administration bill would be modified by eliminating the $17 billion, four-year target figure. Instead it would simply have a clause approving the four-year program in principle, and authorize a $6.8 billion appropriation for the first 15 months only. The way things looked now, the Administration would be lucky to get an authorization for as much as $5 billion. And it could not expect to get final congressional approval...
...There is no real fight between a Truman and a Republican," he cried. "The bigger the peace vote in 1948, the more definitely the world will know that the U.S. is not behind the bipartisan reactionary war policy which is dividing the world into two armed camps and making inevitable the day when American soldiers will be lying in their arctic suits in the Russian snow...
...politician, and as the Republican spokesman on foreign policy, he warded off sniping attacks from members of his own party and preserved the bipartisan foreign policy. Without him, indeed, there probably would not have been a bipartisan policy. And without such a policy, George Marshall could never have led his nation into its new world role...
Essentially, Tom Dewey plainly implied, that meant getting a Republican back in the White House. Whatever success U.S. foreign policy had had to date, he attributed to the bipartisan policy Candidate Dewey had "had the honor to inaugurate" in 1944 and to the actions of the Both Congress. Said he: "It may well eventuate that the election of a Republican Congress last year not only saved the domestic affairs of the United States, but it may well also save the peace of the world...