Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hangar-shaped Public Auditorium. They heard and cheered the two men most responsible for the now bipartisan foreign policy of the U.S.-Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg and retiring Secretary of State James F. Byrnes...
...head of France's second largest political party, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy. At the Cleveland Institute James F. Byrnes delivered an account of his successful stewardship as Secretary of State in a critical year of U.'S. history. From the same platform Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg redefined U.S. foreign policy for the first time since becoming head of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee...
...Vandenberg. The Senator's mellow voice carried the deep significance of his first policy pronouncement since he became the majority party's spokesman on international affairs. He was foreshadowing his new role in the shaping of policy; in his lines could be read significant shifts of emphasis on Some phases of existing policy, clarifications on other debated points. The Senator's speech made news-about U.N., trade policy, China, Latin America, The Bomb...
...Senator Vandenberg firmly repeated his hope of disarmament as "our dearest dream." But: "We shall not disarm alone. . . . We shall take no 'sweetness and light' for granted in a world where there is still too much 'iron curtain.' We shall not trust alone to fickle words. Too many 'words' at Yalta and at Potsdam have been distorted out of all pretense of integrity." (Jimmy Byrnes, listening, frowned deeply...
...Vandenberg held up Bernard Baruch's atomic control plan as an example of U.S. willingness to disarm. Said the Senator: "The price [continuous international inspection and control] is simply continuous protection against treachery. But it is a fixed price . . . and the price must be paid...