Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eleanor Roosevelt dropped in. Senator Arthur Vandenberg invited him-but no hurry about it-to talk to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He decided that he would go to Moscow in March for the Council of Foreign Ministers meetings. Coming to closer grips with the sizzling Argentina policy controversy, he conferred with Ambassador George Messersmith and Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden...
...Menace of Idealism. These were not necessarily the majority, or even the responsible voices of the Senate. There were Republicans who did not want "the blood of another economic war on their hands." They stood somewhere in the middle of the struggle, with Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Colorado's Eugene Millikin, the influential chairmen, respectively, of the Foreign Affairs and the Finance Committees...
...Vandenberg will fight for the Geneva conference, even though he thinks the time is unpropitious because the world situation is so fluid; he would keep the President's powers to make agreements; he is opposed to the idea of requiring congressional ratification. Vandenberg, nevertheless, would like to have a closer look at State's program. As a young man he wrote a phrase of which he is proud: "Unshared idealism is a menace." In other words, other nations must share U.S. ideals before they are allowed to share U.S. markets...
...days before George Marshall would move in as Secretary of State, the U.S. heard a concrete suggestion for a policy toward Germany. The man who made it was John Foster Dulles, adviser to Republicans, including Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Presidential Aspirant Thomas Dewey in 1944, and an alternate delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. Dulles had discussed the policy with both Dewey and Vandenberg, who concurred in his view; he had had a brief session with President Truman ("I just paid my respects"). He presented his proposition last week to 1,000 publishers and managers of U.S. magazines gathered...
...intimate affair; just the Senate president pro tem, Arthur Vandenberg, Senate Majority Leader Wallace White, Speaker Joe Martin, House Majority Leader Charles Halleck and the two Democratic minority leaders, Alben Barkley and Sam Rayburn.* After 50 minutes' non-controversial conversation about war surpluses, the Maritime Commission and possible future meetings, the guests walked out to disappoint a mob of newsmen. The talk, said Senator Vandenberg, was strictly confined to matters "unpartisan"-a word he is trying to substitute for "bipartisan" in the capital vocabulary...