Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Michigan's isolationist Senator Vandenberg spilt the news of Franklin Roosevelt's secret treaty. By threatening to stir up opposition in tax-hungry States and cities, Senator Vandenberg forced the hand of long Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From Chairman Connally: a promise that terms of the tax treaty will be made public...
...bill finally passed the House with 100 Republicans (out of 151 who voted) and 19 Democrats voting against it, the scene shifted to the Senate. There too the convoy argument trailed it. Michigan's Vandenberg produced a letter from Maritime Commission Chairman Emory Land which reported that only eight out of 205 ships clearing from U.S. ports for the United Kingdom between Dec. 30 and March 31 had been sunk. Non-interventionists triumphantly pointed to the figures as proof that ship sinkings were much less alarming than the British and the Administration had painted...
...little to explode the crying need for convoys to protect our aid. (I am aware that the attitude expressed in the editorial had not yet arrived at accepting convoys.) Rear Admiral Emery S. Land, chairman of the United-States Maritime Commission, stated the following in a letter to Senator Vandenberg: of all the vessels sunk between January 1 and April 30 only 12 of 66,782 gross tons cleared from United States ports; of these 12 only eight cleared for United Kingdom ports. I might say slightly below 40 per cent. He based his information "according to our composite records...
...solvency of the U. S. The President still believes in spending Government money as if it were water" (Senator Robert Taft, Ohio); "... A minimum of what we ought to do . . ." (Senator Alben Barkley, Kentucky); "My digestion is not good enough to take it down at one gulp" (Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan); "I'm for adequate national defense, if it takes our shirt" (Senator Tom Connally, Texas); "... a trick budget . . . juggling of figures . . . what we need today is to curtail drastically non-defense spending . . ." (Senator Harry Byrd, Virginia...
...exception of John L. Lewis, are people who have fought the social reforms of the past eight years. They are such champions of labor as Henry Ford and Robert Wood, such defenders of civil liberties as Ham Fish and Father Coughlin, such tribunes of the people as Taft and Vandenberg, such bulwarks of our freedom as the Hearst press, all bound together by the awful fear that war will serve as an excuse for the further extension of governmental control over business. These are people who are paying for the anti-English drive, not because they care a damn about...