Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shocking thing when an American citizen goes abroad to speak against his own government," cried Arthur Vandenberg, referring to the anti-"Truman Doctrine" speeches...
...Senate floor, Arthur Vandenberg had anticipated the President's anger. Said the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee: "Nowhere have Communists more openly presented a more cynical illustration of their idea of democracy. . . . Nowhere has this violation of the basic freedoms . . . raised more definite implications of Moscow's influence in these unholy events...
...State Department consulted with Britain on a tough note of protest. It would charge Russia with illegal intervention in Hungarian affairs, in violation of the tattered Yalta agreement; demand a full Big Three investigation of Russia's role in Hungary; repeat Vandenberg's threat that the Hungary case might be carried...
...Hoover. 4. Vandenberg...
...haste and alarm. He left behind him the Geneva Conference which the U.S. State Department hoped would open new ways to world peace through freer world trade. The conference was stalled. It was stalled because of reports from the U.S. Congress. Largely due to the influence of Arthur Vandenberg late last winter, Congress had let the State Department go ahead with its reciprocal trade program. But even as Clayton arrived in Washington, Minnesota's irreconcilable Isolationist Harold Knutson warned: Congress will promptly raise any tariff the State Department lowers if it damages "a vital industry." As chairman...