Word: vandenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thereupon, Henry Wallace launched into as clear, bristling and forthright a political speech as he has ever made. (Even Senator Vandenberg complimented him on his " able presentation.") Henry Wallace talked of implementing the President's "Economic Bill of Rights": of more jobs and more foreign trade, of increased post war production and a continued high national income, of high wages and a guaranteed annual wage, of safeguarding free enterprise for private industry and blasting monopolies and cartels, of more houses and better roads, of public works and more TVAs, of health insurance and expended social security and more education...
Having done this, the U.S. would have "the duty and the right to demand that whatever immediate unilateral decisions have to be made in consequence of military need . . . they shall all be temporary and subject to final revision in the objective light of the postwar peace league." Said Senator Vandenberg: "I am prepared by effective international cooperation to do our full part in charting happier and safer tomorrows. But I am not prepared to guarantee permanently the spoils of an unjust peace. It will not work...
Atmosphere Cleared. Inevitably, there were some weaknesses and some omissions in the Vandenberg plan. Russia is not at war with Japan and therefore presumably would not sign a treaty regarding her. The plan does not specify the machinery for enforcing permanent disarmament of the Axis. Nor does it guarantee that Britain and Russia, having committed the U.S. to use force to keep Germany and Japan disarmed, might not then decide to junk the Dumbarton Oaks proposals as an unnecessary obstacle to their future freedom of action...
...where is the invisible point at which, for the airman, cooperation becomes seduction? It is the kind of argument that could go on forever. Last week Vandenberg and his men were too busy blasting Germans to join...
...Vandenberg took over the Ninth last August, when Lieut. General Lewis H. Brereton was assigned command of the First Allied Airborne Army. Since then Vandenberg has wielded the weapon of his big air force with skill and devotion. If other top airmen had any criticism of the Ninth, it might be that its bosses had got to working too closely with ground-force commanders. The problem is a delicate one. Coordination of air and ground operations is highly important in battle, and nothing helps it more than good relations between the air and ground commanders. But it is the unalterable...