Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg said in his speech at the closing session of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs' 21st Institute: "I congratulate the Cleveland Forum upon the powerful program it has produced from all quarters of the globe in a striking exchange of international opinion. This process of reciprocal candor is one of the major forces which can beat swords into plowshares on the anvils of mutual understanding and goodwill...
...Senator Vandenberg was insistent that the long-deferred Pan American conference be called. He said: "There is too much evidence that we [Western Hemisphere nations] are drifting apart-and that a Communist upsurge is moving in. We face...
Thus did Arthur Vandenberg give notice of possible changes in U.S. policy. But its tenets, he emphasized most strongly, would remain: the U.S., "in enlightened self-interest, will do everything in its power to sustain organized international defense against aggression, to promote democracy and human rights and fundamental freedoms. ... We plot no conquests. We shall neither condone nor appease the conquests of others...
Byrnes. It was a sentimental moment for the retiring Secretary. He grasped Vandenberg's right hand with both of his own, and they talked earnestly for several minutes. Jimmy Byrnes received another tribute-his big audience rose to a thunderous ovation when he was introduced.* Smiling widely, he said: "I am glad I came to Cleveland...
...immediate point he was specific; he hoped, as did Vandenberg, "to proceed with a negotiation of a mutual assistance treaty in accordance with the Act of Chapultepec at the projected Rio Conference. But we do not wish to proceed without Argentina, and neither our Ambassador nor any official of the State Department is of the opinion that Argentina has yet complied with the commitments which she as well as the other American Republics at Chapultepec agreed to carry...