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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Vandenberg stuck to his guns. In his Senate speech he had pointedly said: "Inevitably, many [of these decisions] unavoidably consult expediency. Expediency and justice frequently are not even on speaking terms with each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Moscow Storm | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Shrilled W.W.C.: "Such is the logic of the imperialist that he regards as nationally ethical that 'what is mine is mine and what is thine is mine.' Vandenberg's . . . unbridled covetousness lays claim to the entire world. . . . The avowed imperialist assumes that if not his belly, at least his pocket will have the requisite capaciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Moscow Storm | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...what remarks of the Senator his Soviet caterwauling might refer was hard to guess, since the Senator is not imperialist. Last week Senator Vandenberg spent most of his time preparing for the San Francisco Conference. Promised freedom of action by Franklin Roosevelt, he seemed determined to exercise his freedom to the fullest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Moscow Storm | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...Revisionist. Along with the other U.S. delegates, he had an hour-long meeting with Secretary of State Stettinius. At its conclusion, Senator Vandenberg handed Ed Stettinius a nine-point memorandum suggesting revisions in the Dumbarton Oaks formula. None of them was unacceptable to the Secretary of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Moscow Storm | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...memorandum was not made public, but one of its big points had previously been elaborated by Vandenberg on the floor of the Senate. He will insist that all decisions made during the war (Poland, Greece, Rumania, Yugoslavia, etc.) be re-viewed at the final peace conference. This proposal may have provoked W.W.C.'s outcry about imperialism. Pundit Walter Lippmann, frankly in favor of spheres of influence, cried that Senator Vandenberg's suggestion would cause "endless confusion." But Harold Stassen, internationalist, has also insisted that any world organization should include provision for peaceful change as it is needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Moscow Storm | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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