Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They met in an effort to frame a Republican approach to the European Recovery Program-an approach which would differ somewhat from Senator Vandenberg's participation in the so-called bipartisan foreign policy. Republicans wanted to make sure that whatever total amount was appropriated for ERP was really necessary, and that the administration of ERP would be in competent hands. They also wanted to find a way in which the Republican Congress could put its label on the plan...
...Ohio's John Bricker, Illinois' "Curley" Brooks, Missouri's James Kem. In all, 20 Republican Senators turned up. Except for California's Bill Knowland, all were men who had been stirring restlessly under the bipartisan policy. All had been growing increasingly critical of Arthur Vandenberg's willingness to work with the Administration...
Substantial Change. What that meant was becoming increasingly clear. Even Arthur Vandenberg was privately convinced that the Administration's bill could and would have to stand substantial change. He had already publicly tipped his hand by agreeing with a suggestion of World Bank President John J. McCloy. The proposal: that ERP include a formula for "progressive credits"-i.e., make the amount of aid extended dependent on the rate of the economic recovery...
That was one amendment that would be sure to please the potential rebels. There were others. The money to be spent on ERP would probably now be fixed somewhere between the $4 billion which Bob Taft had urged as the top limit, and the $6.8 billion Administration figure which Vandenberg still tacitly supported. The administration of ERP would be handled by a separate agency, with the State Department limited to passing on political issues...
...State Department," said he, "has lost all interest in questions involving Latin America." With the notable exception of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, "statesmen of the great nation to the north are completely absorbed in European problems and in no way take interest in plans for economic cooperation with . . . the western hemisphere...