Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Core. To bolster Acheson, the U.S.'s highest brass marched up to Capitol Hill. Army Chief of Staff Omar Bradley, flanked by the Navy's Admiral Denfeld and the Air Force's General Hoyt Vandenberg, spoke for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Said Missouri-born Omar Bradley, whose vivid prose is the match of Acheson's: "We can surely anticipate that any aggressor will alternatively press and quell the crises, hoping to hold the [North Atlantic Treaty] powers in perpetual irresolution. But irresolution has no apology. It is born of fear and selfishness...
Museum Piece? The real objection, in many Senators' minds, was not to the pact but to the arms program. Dulles and Arthur Vandenberg said they were two separate matters. The State Department thought they were linked by implication but actually independent...
...33rd degree is purely honorary. Harry Truman is the first President to receive the 33rd degree (Warren G. Harding was named, but died before going through the ceremony). Among the 4,200 honorary 33rd degree Masons: Generals Douglas MacArthur, Mark Clark and Jimmy Doolittle, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Supreme Court Justice Harold Burton, Publisher Roy Howard...
Army Chief of Staff General Omar N. Bradley, attending top-level military conferences in White Sulphur Springs, took time out for golf with two other big guns: Under Secretary of Defense Stephen T. Early and Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg...
This week a more penetrating voice was heard in opposition to the pact. No matter what Vandenberg and Connally said, Ohio's Robert Taft felt that it commits the U.S. to arms assistance as well. And if it does, "I believe it will promote war in the world rather than peace . . . My conclusion has been reached with the greatest discomfort. When so many disagree with that conclusion, I must admit that I may be completely wrong...