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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really ready to take on all the onerous and hazardous chores of world participation? In Paris, after a particularly sour session of the Big Four "peace conference," Senator Arthur Vandenberg wryly remarked: "Life was simple for me when I was an isolationist. Another couple of days of this and I'll be more isolationist than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Brave New Deeds | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Actually such a reversal would be inconceivable to Vandenberg, who understands the impossibility of withdrawal. Did the people also understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Brave New Deeds | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg is a normally cautious man with a good sense of history, and a fine sense of the politically appropriate remark. But all these admirable qualities melted in the Paris sunshine last week when he landed at Orly airfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Path of Peace | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Puzzled Frenchmen frowned. Editors scratched their chins. It made no historical sense, but one of the most important of U.S. Senators had obviously meant something by it. Several days later a girl reporter asked Vandenberg why he had called for revolution in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Path of Peace | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg criticized U.N. for its self-inflicted title. (He would prefer UNO.) "Un what?" cried the distressed Senator. "It sounds like an emasculated affair. United Nations isn't that and can't be that. When you say, 'Un,' you haven't done anything but grunt." The Senator grunted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Gastronomy | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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