Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that held it many men had labored- Bevin and Bidault, General Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and, eminently, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in the U.S. But the dam's chief builder was James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S.C., who became the firm and patient voice of the U.S. in the councils of the world...
...agreement. Before Byrnes left for the January U.N. meeting in London, President Truman reminded him that Vanden-berg's support was necessary to make Byrnes's policy stick with the Senate and the country. At the London meeting Bevin still carried the ball for the West and Vandenberg was still dissatisfied with Byrnes. In his report to the Senate on the U.N. meeting, Vandenberg lavished praise on Bevin, Bidault and others, pointedly omitted any reference to Byrnes. Vandenberg then called on the U.S. vigorously to "sustain its own purposes and ideals on all occasions as Russia does." Jimmy...
...Byrnes had continued to stand for patience with Russia while Vandenberg stood for firmness, U.S. policy might have been paralyzed by division. Instead the Senator from Michigan and the ex-Senator from South Carolina (who understood each other well, although there was no great affection between them) began to move in converging lines. In April the Russians scornfully turned their backs on Byrnes's offer of a 25-year German disarmament treaty. That completed Byrnes's education; the bipartisan policy of patience and firmness became the most important new factor in world politics. Bevin was glad to slide...
...Government's position in the world today is symbolized by two men, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes and Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, co-authors of the bipartisan foreign policy. Both will speak at the Institute. Against a background of informed but unofficial U.S. views and of foreign reaction to U.S. policy, Byrnes and his Republican colleague will conclude the sessions with restatements of what the U.S. is trying to accomplish in the United Nations, the Council of Foreign Ministers and other organizations devised to make or keep the peace...
Said foreign-policy expert Arthur Vandenberg: "I am not a candidate . . . and I am anticipating no campaign in my behalf." That left the door carefully ajar. To a reporter's question about a draft call, he quipped: "You mean I don't have any of Sherman's blood...