Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting ready for San Francisco, Senator Vandenberg followed diplomatic custom and bought himself a black Homburg. He flew out in 15 hours in an Army transport with Fellow Delegate Virginia Gildersleeve, Delegation Adviser John Foster Dulles, the State Department's Hamilton Fish Armstrong. His wife went by train. In San Francisco they have a two-room suite at the Fairmont Hotel, from which, over the rooftops of Chinatown, they...
Senator-Statesman. Although Secretary of State Stettinius is head of the U.S. delegation, all eyes at San Francisco will be on the Michigan Senator. (A representative of a small nation, asked last week whom he regarded as the small nations' champion in conference free-for-alls, unhesitatingly replied: Vandenberg...
This natural pre-eminence grows from something more than the fact that Arthur Vandenberg has become a world figure. It is also because he holds the unquestioned balance of power on foreign policy in the Senate. But with his new prestige, and despite the fact that all but four of his 17 Senate years have been spent as a member of the minority, he is neither exultant nor bitter nor disillusioned. He is the "loyal opposition" at its best...
...Arthur Vandenberg by no means goes along with all of the Administration's foreign policy plans. He has deep reservations about Bretton Woods; he is supporting the Russian request for three Assembly votes with great misgivings. And, while he helped push through Lend-Lease extension a fortnight ago, he expressed a native and healthy nationalism when he cautioned the U.S. that it is not rich enough to "become permanent almoner to the whole earth." But so far as the general objectives of world security are concerned, he is not only helping out, he is actually carrying the ball...
...charter of the organization should genuinely recognize the principles of justice and law. Such recognition is now almost entirely absent. We specifically endorse Senator Vandenberg's proposal that the charter should have as one of its leading purposes "to establish justice and to promote respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms." In order to give immediate significance to the rule of law, a definition of "aggression" should be incorporated in the charter of the organization...