Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which every United Nation's capital tries to outdo the other in bitter backtalk about the infirmities of each." I earnestly suggest a moratorium by all concerned until we can sit down together in mutual good faith and try to discover "what's what." A. H. VANDENBERG United States Senate Washington...
...Another ticklish problem was the San Francisco agenda. Would the conference merely be asked to swallow Dumbarton Oaks whole, without any change? Moscow's War and the Working Class, which often reflects official opinion, thought so. Yet among the U.S. delegation were at least two-Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Commander Harold Stassen-determined to amend Dumbarton Oaks. Ed Stettinius finally made the Administration line clear: to defend and preserve the basic character of Dumbarton Oaks, but to put proffered amendments before the entire conference...
Salvation in Limbo? A week before the secret leaked out, the President imparted it to the three Congressional members of the U.S. delegation to San Francisco: Senate's Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Connally, Michigan's potent Republican Arthur H. Vandenberg, New Jersey's Republican Representative Charles A. Eaton. Letting them in on the truth, the President swore them to secrecy...
Growled Arthur Vandenberg, who may well sway the U.S. Senate for or against any treaty ratifying a world charter: "I . . . deeply disagree. . . ." All three Congressmen made their disgust acidly plain to Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr., who had suddenly discovered spots on his shiny new world...
...Soldier's Voice. Senator Vandenberg announced that, in formulating his plans for San Francisco, he would give top priority to the opinions of U.S. fighting men. He said he had already received a large batch of G.I. mail. He summed up the soldiers' opinions: "They are for an international organization, with the U.S. participating. But they very definitely do not want an international sucker made out of Uncle Sam. They want us to negotiate with our eyes open...