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...Herald Tribune was pointing at Senator Taft. Colorado's Eugene Millikin, Taft's right-hand man, had indicated that he would support Lilienthal. Co-Leader Arthur Vandenberg gave Lilienthal lukewarm support; he did not want to jeopardize Republican unity. Upon Taft rested the outcome. Taft's word would solidify G.O.P. opposition or break it. He could cast his one vote and let it go at that; or he could demand a party vote. In that case, said one Republican Senator who privately admitted that he would vote to confirm, "a lot of us who would be independent...
...major problem of U.S.diplomacy is Russia's defensive silence, equivocation and niggling delay. Last week Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Arthur Vandenberg discussed a prime example: Russia's refusal even to answer U.S. notes suggesting a Lend-Lease settlement...
...Happy Sturgeon. When President and Mrs. Harry Truman honored Senator Arthur Vandenberg with a White House dinner, a casual spectator would never have noticed that Manhattan Saloonkeeper Bernard ("Toots") Shor was numbered among the 90 guests. Shor, who looks like Gargantua* as a baby and who loves to greet his own clientele as "crum bums," was burstingly immaculate in white tie & tails, and acted as though he knew as much about the partitioning of Germany as Jimmy Byrnes...
...Menace of Idealism. These were not necessarily the majority, or even the responsible voices of the Senate. There were Republicans who did not want "the blood of another economic war on their hands." They stood somewhere in the middle of the struggle, with Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Colorado's Eugene Millikin, the influential chairmen, respectively, of the Foreign Affairs and the Finance Committees...
...Vandenberg will fight for the Geneva conference, even though he thinks the time is unpropitious because the world situation is so fluid; he would keep the President's powers to make agreements; he is opposed to the idea of requiring congressional ratification. Vandenberg, nevertheless, would like to have a closer look at State's program. As a young man he wrote a phrase of which he is proud: "Unshared idealism is a menace." In other words, other nations must share U.S. ideals before they are allowed to share U.S. markets...