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Probably the angriest man in Washington was Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who would now have to undertake the job of repairing the House blunder. He immediately asked to make his views known before the Senate Appropriations Committee this week. There was little doubt that he would be able to restore most of the cuts, and with them the damage to Republican prestige...
...that is precisely what GOP House leaders have achieved, pressed into irresponsibility by their own backward outlook and, more significantly, by the formal contest for control of their Party which looms so close at hand. If the dominant Martin-Taber-Halleck Knutson cabal successfully "guts," to use Senator Vandenberg's expression of yesterday, the ERP endeavor, it will amount to national tragedy. If this is heaped upon the deed of a mangled reciprocal trade agreements program and if it is followed by the further steps which such a high-riding reactionary leadership would surely attempt, the earthquake tremor of fear...
...urgent request for a three-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, the nation's most successful experiment in economic internationalism. Instead, it voted to extend the act for one year only, adding a provision which would bring major tariff changes under congressional veto. Senator Arthur Vandenberg announced that when the bill reached the Senate he would do his best to take the veto out again...
...being out in front also brought embarrassing moments. A growing number of Republicans, joined by several newspaper columnists, were suggesting that the strongest Republican ticket would be Arthur Vandenberg for President and Tom Dewey for Vice President. Columnist Walter Lippmann wrote that Dewey is "entirely competent to be President," but "a man who refused the Vice Presidency under these circumstances would write himself down as too ambitious, as lacking in humility and a sense of duty and, therefore, as not really qualified to be President...
...Seattle: "The policies of Truman, Vandenberg, Marshall and Forrestal have stained the world with blood and have laid the foundation for the greatest bloodshed the world has ever seen . . . We must have ... an under standing [with Russia...