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...resignation gave any support to an article in LIFE last week by Columnist Jay Franklin, who had written campaign speeches for Truman. Franklin (speaking for himself and specifically not for LIFE) had asserted that the President was preparing to swing away from the For-restal-Marshall-Lovett-Vandenberg policy to a softer policy toward the Russians. That article, said Truman sharply, is absolutely without foundation, in fact, in nearly every instance and every paragraph...
Congressional leaders expected that Acheson would get Senate approval after a lot of talk but not too much trouble (the Senate had confirmed him as Under Secretary by a vote of 69 to 1). Said ranking Republican Committee Member Arthur H. Vandenberg: he is a man of "wide experience in foreign affairs ... I expect the committee will fully explore his viewpoints...
Another who hoped that Marshall and Lovett would stay was Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, their statesmanlike collaborator. Last week he wrote to the New York Times: "While men are never permanently indispensable, Secretary Marshall and Under Secretary Lovett come close to it for the time being . . . whether we agree with them in all things...
...constitutionality of signing such a treaty has been discussed at length throughout the past few weeks; strictly speaking, it would be illegal for Congress to obligate itself ahead of time to declare war in the event of a Russian invasion of western Europe. Senator Vandenberg and other exports, however, have found many loopholes in this technical point which make it clear that the United States can join the pact if it wants to. The question is: should...
...Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, the man most responsible for our bipartisan foreign policy. 1948's most important news was the European Recovery Program, without which France and Italy would have fallen to the Communists. Without Senator Vandenberg, an adequate Marshall Plan would never have been passed by the Neanderthal Wing of Congress...