Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some opponents of ERP seemed determined to sludge up the going. Some, who had once quailed at the magnitude of ERP, now asked: "Is it enough?" How, demanded Missouri's white-haired James P. Kem, could a "wall of dollars" keep Communism out of Western Europe? Arthur Vandenberg admitted that ERP was simply "the best of calculated risks." But Kem insisted on having some kind of "reasonable assurance." Snapped Vandenberg: "Can the Senator from Missouri give me any reasonable assurance as to what the plans of the Politburo are . . . regarding their conquest of the west...
...Replied Vandenberg: "If the Senator is asking me to disclose the plans of the Executive ... he has applied at the wrong window. ... I know of no bargains that war has. I think that peace does have a bargain once in a while. Perhaps [ERP] is one. I am irrevocably of the opinion that it is well worth finding...
...Vote. Vandenberg countered by inquiring sarcastically: "Is it the Senator's theory that the majority of the . . . nations on his proposed council could declare a state of war . . . without our consent?" It was. "The Senator," taunted Arthur Vandenberg, "is a little more internationalist than I am." "I suspect I am," said Joe Ball. "I think I probably always have been." Vandenberg fired his last broadside: "It is interesting to be in favor of everything that is not available for us to vote on, and not in favor of anything that...
Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg had displayed a suitable reluctance. He had insisted that he did not want his name entered in Nebraska's presidential primary next month. But Raymond A. McConnell Jr., chairman of a bipartisan group which thought the public should have a chance to express itself on all G.O.P. possibilities, had been stubborn...
Last week Vandenberg sent off a last-minute protest. McConnell fired back a flat question: "If you were nominated by the Republican convention, would you accept?" Replied Vandenberg: "I decline to speculate...