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...many times before, the Republicans' Vandenberg was leading the fight for the Administration's foreign policy. One day last week, clad in a gleaming white linen suit, Vandenberg took the Senate floor to present a resolution, which was the next great pillar in the slowly building structure of U.S. postwar foreign policy...
...defense under the U.N. Under it, the President would get tacit and prior approval to negotiate arrangements for mutual defense with Europe's Western Union. The Marshall Plan had offered the U.S.'s immense resources to assure Western Europe's economic security against Communist disruption. The Vandenberg resolution was its military corollary...
...Under Vandenberg's patient prodding, the Senate approved overwhelmingly, 64 to 4. The resolution was not binding on the President or on the country. Another Congress was free to amend, or even to reverse it. But for the first time in U.S. history, the U.S. Senate had approved, in principle, a peacetime military agreement with democratic nations on the continent of Europe...
...Indirection. Earlier in the week, Vandenberg had rushed to the rescue of ECA itself. Appearing at his own request before the Senate Appropriations Committee, he sharply and eloquently denounced the House's $2 billion slash in funds for European recovery (TIME, June...
...said Vandenberg, would brand U.S. policies as "capricious, unreliable and impotent." Its effect would be "to repeal by indirection" the whole intent of ECA. Said Vandenberg...