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...that held it many men had labored- Bevin and Bidault, General Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and, eminently, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in the U.S. But the dam's chief builder was James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S.C., who became the firm and patient voice of the U.S. in the councils of the world...
...agreement. Before Byrnes left for the January U.N. meeting in London, President Truman reminded him that Vanden-berg's support was necessary to make Byrnes's policy stick with the Senate and the country. At the London meeting Bevin still carried the ball for the West and Vandenberg was still dissatisfied with Byrnes. In his report to the Senate on the U.N. meeting, Vandenberg lavished praise on Bevin, Bidault and others, pointedly omitted any reference to Byrnes. Vandenberg then called on the U.S. vigorously to "sustain its own purposes and ideals on all occasions as Russia does." Jimmy...
...year the U.S. would have a new team at U.N. Last week both Arthur Vandenberg and Tom Connally announced "that they wanted to return to their senatorial duties...
...Arthur Vandenberg would be missed. By supporting Secretary Byrnes in his policy of "patience as well as firmness" with the Russians, he had kept U.S. foreign policy on a high bi-partisan plane. But in the future, as chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, he might wield even more influence and speak with greater authority...
Said foreign-policy expert Arthur Vandenberg: "I am not a candidate . . . and I am anticipating no campaign in my behalf." That left the door carefully ajar. To a reporter's question about a draft call, he quipped: "You mean I don't have any of Sherman's blood...