Word: vandenbergers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Volunteers. On the day before this crisis, slim, restless Major General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, commander of the U.S. Ninth Air Force, had popped into the headquarters of 40-year-old Major General Elwood Ricardo Quesada, head of one of the Ninth's chief components-the IX Tactical Air Command, whose fighter bombers were stationed back of the First Army. "Van" Vandenberg and "Pete" Quesada went over reports, decided that this was the real thing. The immediate task was to muster every fighter bomber into attacks, to impede Rundstedt's armored spearheads. Generals Van and Pete faced hard facts...
Cassady and Jaffe got back with the information. Vandenberg's men were ready with antitank guns that travel 400 m.p.h. - P47 Thunderbolt fighter bombers. For the next four hours the Thunderbolts struck in groups of four, boring in through the mist with flak-scarred wings nearly scraping the towering hills, to drop their bombs and to rake the column with rockets. One contingent found another column of comparable size on a winding road, gave it the lethal works...
Secret or Scandal? The Churchill statement raised a corollary issue in the U.S.: what is U.S. policy? In the Senate Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, the ranking minority voice on foreign policy, was not so much interested in the dismemberment of Poland as in the U.S. attitude. Cried he: "The U.S. should not be a silent partner. ... If Churchill consulted the U.S. [on the Polish question] it is a state secret. If he did not, it is a state scandal...
Strongest opposition to the appointees will come from the Senate's 37 Republicans. Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio pointed out that Hurley, defeated for reelection in 1942 and this year, was a "lame duck twice rejected by the people of his state." Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg tartly added: "We are dealing with surplus property, not surplus politicians." Democratic confirmation of Hurley and Heller seemed assured...
...Senate, Michigan's sober Arthur H. Vandenberg mulled the question that will perplex the U.S. for months to come: "What shall we say ... to govern our own American delegate when he is called upon finally to vote in respect to the use of force . . . without the constitutional concurrence of Congress? That will raise a very interesting question. ... It cannot be settled at Dumbarton Oaks. It cannot be settled by any international conference. It is nobody's business but ours...