Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the Senate debated ERP. Michigan's big Arthur Vandenberg, imbued with a sense of "terrible urgency," and with most of the Senate behind him, drove hard for swift action. But against him a handful lined up in relays to argue, haggle, hold back. From the crowded galleries, spectators' attention focused on the massive figure of Big Van, on his feet most of the time, parrying questions, thrusting home his answers, meeting objections & complaints. When he left the floor, Massachusetts' able young Henry
...Senate this week, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg rose to present, "in the name of peace, stability, and freedom," the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, more familiarly known...
...Vandenberg's baroque oratorical style was scarcely equal to his urgent sense of history. But his long and detailed presentation had a ponderous impressiveness. Said he solemnly: "[This plan] is the final product of eight months of more intensive study by more devoted minds than I have ever known to concentrate upon any other one objective in all my 20 years in Congress. ... If it fails, we have done our final best. If it succeeds, our children and our children's children will call us blessed...
These blocs must be the target of the New England student committees. As Vandenberg pointed out in his speech, the current legislation does not claim to be a cure-all, nor does it promise immediate results. But something will be passed, good or bad. The Harvard-Radcliffe Committee has rightly seen that its job is to hammer away at this Congress, in an attempt to keep the ERP bill within the broad and constructive frame of Marshall's original suggestion...
...several committees in these New England colleges have a job to do and they must do it quickly. In opening the ERP debate yesterday on the Senate floor, Senator Vandenberg urged his colleagues to pass the bill within two weeks. His plea for speedy action has been sharply underlined by the rapid turnover of events during the past week across the Atlantic. But the determined Congressional opposition to vital aspects of Marshall's proposals will not necessarily be jolted into line by news of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia or the ominous pressure put on Finland by the Soviets...