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Political Bull's-Eye. The exhausted, sweating convention delegates had known and got almost exactly what they wanted. The real battle was never over issues. The Republican Party from the outset wanted someone like Arthur Vandenberg or Harold Stassen or Tom Dewey-all men who believed that the U.S. must accept its leadership in the world. The nomination of Tom Dewey conclusively routed the corporal's guard of Republican isolationists. They had rallied behind Robert Taft. even though he himself said that "isolationism" was a dead issue...
General Ike, wrote his friend Roy Roberts in the Kansas City Star, feels that the G.O.P. must make known by its platform, but more especially by its candidate, its intention to stand firm for the bipartisan foreign policy. The candidate Eisenhower would prefer: Vandenberg. Those whom he would count safe: Dewey, Stassen, Warren. Nominees whom Eisenhower would not accept: Taft, Bricker, Joe Martin. If the G.O.P. disappointed Ike, what would he do? Wrote Roberts: "His friends believe that he will take a dramatic way to warn the country. . . How far he'll go, no one knows...
...plank was full of knots. It endorsed reciprocal trade agreements, but added a phrase which left the door open for high tariffs and a generally protectionist policy. Otherwise, the foreign policy section followed the precepts of Senator Vandenberg...
...closing days made one fact clear. The Republican Party-like the Democratic-is composed of two factions: responsible progressives and conservative standpatters who hanker for "normalcy." The progressives, led by Senators Vandenberg and Taft, won. But not without forcing such House conservatives as penny-pinching John Taber, Michigan's Jesse Wolcott and Rules Committee Chairman Leo Allen to eat crow...
...Just before the payoff in Philadelphia, some brave experts made their final prophecies. Of 815 newspaper editors polled by the U.S. News, 417 expected Senator Arthur Vandenberg to get the nomination, 271 hoped he would. Jim Farley predicted "a deadlock between Dewey and Taft. If they get together, one of them will be the nominee. If they don't, you'll see Vandenberg in there...