Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charter to come out of San Francisco-did not expect the millennium. But it seemed determined to help achieve some semblance of world order and U.S. adherence thereto, if it was at all possible. That determination was in good part due to a man from Michigan-Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg...
...conference opened this week, Arthur Vandenberg was unquestionably the most important U.S. delegate present, and perhaps the single most important man. Molotov would loom large because of the power he wields by proxy from the Kremlin; Eden would command consideration as the spokesman and heir apparent of Churchill. But by & large the success of a world security organization would stand or fall on the question of U.S. adherence. And the answer to that question lay with Senator Vandenberg...
...Franklin Roosevelt lived, he would doubtless have dominated San Francisco. With him on the scene, most foreign nations would have felt that, somehow or other, he would have persuaded or cajoled the U.S. Senate into line. Now that he was dead, the power lay more heavily than ever in Vandenberg's hands. The passing of Franklin Roosevelt had vastly increased the weight of Vandenberg's influence with the U.S. Senate...
That Arthur Vandenberg, once a rock-ribbed isolationist, should thus become a man whose actions and opinions could do so much to shape the peace of the world was a sizable fact. He could have become the Henry Cabot Lodge of 1945, but he did not. Like the U.S., he had learned the hard way: the deadly march of worldwide war had shown him what was wrong with isolationism. It had not been a sudden change: like the U.S., he had come a long, slow way since...
...Speech. Ever since his famed Senate speech of last Jan. 10, Vandenberg had been the marked man of U.S. foreign relations. The most concrete thing he said in that speech was a recommendation that the U.S. and her major allies sign an immediate treaty to keep Germany disarmed by force. This was not a new idea. What gave it international impact was the fact that a leading member of the opposition said it, the earnest way he said it, and the effect of his words on his party and the U.S. at large...