Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...droning through its regular business one warm day last week when into the chamber strode two large and familiar figures. All business stopped. While the presiding officer rapped futilely for order, members crowded around Texas' big, spaniel-haired Tom Connally and Michigan's big, balding Arthur Vandenberg. They were back from San Francisco with the design for world peace...
Peace with Justice. Vandenberg spoke the next day. Again the gallery was crowded, and once again Lord Halifax sat in the front row, listening intently. Vandenberg was the man who had once led some Republicans in the ways of strict isolation...
...Vandenberg also spoke of peace-but peace with justice. The charter, said he, "invokes the moral pressures of the organized conscience of the world. There is no escape for any power, however great, from the clear responsibility which it will unavoidably assume before an outraged world if it takes to the warpath before it has exhausted these paths of peace...
There would still be debate. Senators Connally and Vandenberg, fresh from San Francisco, would open it this week with speeches in defense of the charter. There would be criticism and strictures. But an Associated Press poll of 75 Senators found none definitely against...
...People." To their colleagues in the cloakrooms. Senator Connally or Senator Vandenberg might...