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California's Senator Bill Knowland, just back from a visit to China's retreating Nationalist armies, warned: "Munich certainly should have taught us that appeasement of aggression, then as now, is but surrender on the installment plan." To this ailing Arthur Vandenberg added a restrained, nonpartisan postscript. "The Formosan question is presently clarified," he said, "but it is not settled...
Wherrymandering. But the hottest fight of all was building up within the ranks of the Republican Party. All through the last two sessions of Congress, it had been Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg who had beaten back the attacks of the isolationists within his own party. But his recent, critical operation had left Vandenberg tired and weakened, and there was an ominous rumbling of activity from among Republicans who had consistently fought the bipartisan foreign policy on EGA, the Atlantic Treaty and the military-assistance program...
...Recognition would jeopardize any U.S. moves in Formosa. So ran the debate. Last week another influential voice joined the discussion. The Republican's top foreign-policy strategist, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, returned to Washington, thinned down (by 30 Ibs.) but recovered from his operation. His answer to recognition was neither yes nor no. It was not yet. Said Michigan's Vandenberg: Communist China must first demonstrate its "competent control [and] its willingness to observe the rules of international law. In neither respect does it now qualify for recognition...
...strategy committee's acting chairman, Michigan Auto Dealer Arthur E. Summerfield, who tried to win the 1948 presidential nomination for Senator Vandenberg, said that he personally was clear on what the party's position should be: "I think everyone here will agree with me that the difference between the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations is that with Roosevelt we were drifting toward socialism, but with Truman there is no drift-it's a headlong rush . . ." Said Summerfield: "We must be brutally frank." The G.O.P. should "divest itself of 'me-too-ism' and go to the people...
...later years, Hoover and Coolidge both employed ghostly assistance. And in his campaign speeches, Warren Harding had the help of a rising young ghost, Arthur Vandenberg, then editor of the Grand Rapids Herald. Today, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg is one of the few who fashion their own rolling periods unaided...