Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Riddle. There were danger spots. The Middle East was one. It seemed to Vandenberg that Vishinsky was "less interested in helping Lebanon and Syria than he was in baiting France and Britain -less interested in peace at this point than he was in friction." Candidly, then, Vandenberg faced the question: "What is Russia...
...Arthur Vandenberg, he believed that harmony is possible-if: "the United States speaks as plainly upon all occasions as Russia does; the United States just as vigorously sustains its own purposes and its ideals as Russia does; we abandon the miserable fiction, often encouraged by our own fellow travelers, that we somehow jeopardize the peace if our candor is as firm as Russia's always is; we assume a moral leadership which we have too frequently allowed to lapse...
Where Shall the U.S. Stand? Said Vandenberg: "There is a line beyond which compromise cannot go. ... But how can we expect our alien friends to know where that line is unless we reestablish the habit of saying only what we mean and meaning every word...
...fact way-two years, five years, what will you bet?" On the Continent the schism between Russia and the West was forcing the great mass of moderate men into two opposing camps, with the extremists in both getting ready for "when war comes." As Jimmy Byrnes and Arthur Vandenberg spoke of a stronger U.S. foreign policy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), war talk was also heard...
Britons welcomed the Byrnes and Vandenberg speeches as at least indirect backing. Though the U.S. was not likely to guarantee the British Empire against rising colonial peoples, minimum U.S. interests require that Russia does not replace Britain in any major area which Britain may relinquish...