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...power. Between the House and Senate there had been honest differences of opinion. A majority of the Senate wanted an all-civilian atomic commission, with the military held to a liaison role. The House passed a version putting one military representative on the commission. The Senators, led by Arthur Vandenberg, held to their principles and in conference the House backed down...
...other members: Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Tom Connally, Rep. Sol Bloom of New York, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Alternates: Rep. Charles Eaton of New Jersey, Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas of California, John Foster Dulles of New York City and Adlai Stevenson, Chicago lawyer who served with the U.S. delegation at U.N.'s London sessions...
...candidates: President Truman's popularity had dived deep from a high of 87% soon after V-J day; now only 43 of every 100 polled voters approved of the way he was doing his job. Republicans' percentage preferences for 1948: Dewey 38, Stassen 28, Bricker 9, Vandenberg 7 MlacArthur 6, Taft 4, Eisenhower 2, others...
With the hopeful courage that has marked his leadership in U.S. foreign policy, Senator Vandenberg called the Paris conference "a long step down the thorny path of peace." It remained to be seen...
...Worse. Bidault then offered a complicated compromise calling for Big Four plus U.N. plus joint Italo-Yugoslav rule of Trieste for ten years. (Senator Vandenberg called it "something out of Gilbert & Sullivan . . . more government per square inch than ever established anywhere.") Nobody liked the plan, not even Bidault; but all agreed to study...