Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...64th birthday last week, members of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee presented hard-working Chairman Arthur Vandenberg with his ninth unanimous vote: a 13-to-0 approval of the China-aid bill. But four days later, as the bill reached the Senate floor, the committee report accompanying it exploded the birthday present like a trick cigar...
Next day, red-faced Arthur Vandenberg hastily withdrew the report, telephoned his personal apologies to Chinese Ambassador Wellington Koo and scribbled a statement of retraction...
...report had been drawn up in routine fashion by the committee staff, Vandenberg explained, and had not been reviewed by the committee itself. Said Vandenberg: "I think it is obvious that certain reforms in the Chinese government and the basic Chinese economy are necessary . . . [but] I deeply respect the tremendous patriotic labors and the integrity of the great and courageous Generalissimo. ... I have always supported and continue to support him against the armed Chinese Communists...
...responsible for the blunder, Vandenberg refused to say. He insisted that "there was nothing at all sinister about it." But there could be no question that it was Vandenberg's laxity which let it slip into print...
...already complicated College political scene received two new facets of expression during vacation when Frederick D. Houghteling '50 and Stephen M. Schwebel '50 recently formed groups in support of Eisenhower and Vandenberg, respectively...