Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insisting that the U.S. take on one job at a time and that the first job is Western Europe. For that reason he suppressed Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer's report on the critical condition of China (TIME, Oct. 20). Last week, largely at the insistence of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Marshall added China to the tag end of the program...
Stalin said that in 1925, when George Marshall was a lieutenant colonel in China, Arthur Vandenberg an editor in Grand Rapids and Harry Truman, having just helped to found the Kansas City Automobile Club, was soliciting members for it. Stalin, even then, was thinking along the lines that led to the organization of the Cominform to fight the Marshall Plan...
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, and his wife Hazel, were both in a Grand Rapids hospital, he for a rest and checkup, she for a gall-bladder operation. The post-operative report: "satisfactory...
...Senator Vandenberg warned the President of the overoptimism of this timetable. He pointed out that the President had asked for aid to Greece and Turkey by last April 1, had actually got it from Congress by July 25. The three weeks between Dec. 1 and Christmas, Senator Vandenberg said, did not provide a long enough time; one man could hold up everything with a filibuster...
...Subservience before the boss is a talent of statesmanship which Harry Truman mastered to perfection. Endless readiness to serve his Wall Street master-this is what finally took the small Missourian to the White House. . . . Let Vandenberg, Byrnes, Dulles, Hoover manager him, and let Clark Clifford . . . write his speeches for him. Let Truman only read them tolerably well. Thus Harry Truman has become the clerk of American imperialism. . . . He no longer says, as formerly, that he never takes political decisions without consulting his wife. He knows now with whom to consult! . . . In his squeaky voice already is heard the sound...