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Dulles' name had been proposed for the job by Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg, the Republicans' chief architect of bipartisanship in foreign policy, and his selection was hailed by Vandenberg's hardy little group of Republicans in the Senate. But there were other Republicans who were not so happy at the idea. Bipartisanship, snapped Ohio's Robert Taft, "is not accomplished by the appointment of an individual Republican . . . Bipartisanship is being used by Mr. Truman as a slogan to condemn any Republican who disagrees with Mr. Truman's unilateral foreign policy, secretly initiated...
...were leveled at his New York colleague, Democrat Herbert Lehman, who had recently demanded that the Republicans divorce themselves from politics in foreign affairs. Ives noted that the demise of bipartisanship was largely due to the absence of two Republicans who had originally shown the way. One was Arthur Vandenberg, who was sick. The other was John Foster Dulles, who had been beaten for election last year by Herbert Lehman...
...same role that Republican John Foster Dulles played in previous international conferences. An able and vigorous supporter of bipartisan foreign policy when he was in the Senate (he was beaten in 1948), 48-year-old, Yale-trained John Cooper had the backing of Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg, who had approved his appointment...
...this week from his job as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. A central figure in the long argument over U.S.-China policy, he was the target of a concentrated Republican attack when the Senate was asked to confirm his appointment less than a year ago. Senator Vandenberg had called his naming a "very great mistake" which meant, said Vandenberg, "continuation of a regime which inevitably is connected with a very tragic failure in the Far East." Nevertheless, Administration forces in the Senate jammed him through. Now the Administration was definitely sidetracking him: his new, subordinate job will...
Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican from Michigan, 66, the Senate's architect of bipartisan foreign policy. More than most, he has the historic view, and his opinions carry immense prestige. He has done more than any other Senator, of either party, to reshape foreign programs so that the Senate could approve them. Middle of the road in domestic affairs, in foreign policy he has rendered his country historic service with his sound counsel and his baroque eloquence...