Word: vanden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Americans agreed that this was the least they could do for the men and women who came with little but walked with a determined air. "They came not because they were defeated," said I.R.C. Board Member William Vanden Heuvel, as he flew home last week from Vienna. "They are not poor, fearful, tired people, but people who still believe in a free Hungary to come." Then he added: "These are people who have won a victory, the most momentous victory since World War II. It is we who owe them a debt...
...Battle of Washington had given the Air Force a sensitive defense mechanism and an annoying passion for flamboyant publicity to drive its message home to the U.S. public, a proneness to leak its troubles to partisans in the press and in Congress when the infighting got tough. As Vanden-berg's Vice Chief of Staff, Nate Twining knew the infighting techniques as well as anybody. But when President Eisenhower promoted Twining to Chief of Staff last June, it was Twining's judgment that the long revolution was over, that the time had come to disband the rearguard...
...went along with Arthur Vanden-berg's leadership in the Republicans' postwar policy in foreign affairs, Van's so-called "unpartisanship." But Taft had misgivings, which Vandenberg also began to entertain before the end of his career. When the Michigan Senator died of cancer in 1951, Taft began to express himself with vigor on foreign affairs, attacking what he saw as defects and ambiguities in the NATO pact, challenging both the President's right and wisdom in committing large numbers of U.S. troops to Europe, fixing the blame for the Korean attack on the Administration...