Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost ignored in the turmoil over the Soviet-U.S. exchange of notes was a document that might prove the most important of the week. It was a "working paper" submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg. It was the bipartisan blueprint for U.S. security...
...work for gradual revision of the veto power. It laid down the legal basis for U.S. plans to organize collective security within that framework. These called for development of regional arrangements for collective self-defense under Article 51, and the "association" of the U.S. with such groupings. Vandenberg obviously had in mind Europe's Western Union...
These regional pacts, the resolution stipulated, must be based on "selfhelp and mutual aid." The Western Union countries would have to show they meant business. Said Vandenberg: the resolution "applies to security the same formula we have applied to economic recovery...
Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was still not talking, but the word went out last week that he is available for the Republican presidential nomination and that he would accept it. This was, perhaps, the biggest news of the political campaign to date...
...Dark. The tidings swiftly got to Pennsylvania's Governor Jim Duff, who hopes to put most of his state's 73 delegates in the driver's seat of a Vandenberg bandwagon at Philadelphia next month (TIME, May 10). The Senator's strategists hoped that his friends around the country would not start making a big noise about his candidacy. They wanted him to keep his standing as a dark horse, but they also wanted his friends to be no longer in the dark about his willingness to run. They could spread the word quietly to state...