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Almost ignored in the turmoil over the Soviet-U.S. exchange of notes was a document that might prove the most important of the week. It was a "working paper" submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg. It was the bipartisan blueprint for U.S. security...
...work for gradual revision of the veto power. It laid down the legal basis for U.S. plans to organize collective security within that framework. These called for development of regional arrangements for collective self-defense under Article 51, and the "association" of the U.S. with such groupings. Vandenberg obviously had in mind Europe's Western Union...
These regional pacts, the resolution stipulated, must be based on "selfhelp and mutual aid." The Western Union countries would have to show they meant business. Said Vandenberg: the resolution "applies to security the same formula we have applied to economic recovery...
...Nearly half of the delegates were either 1) undecided, 2) pledged to favorite sons, or 3) silent. Those who were committed or unofficially pledged made the first ballot score read: Dewey, 202; Stassen, 143; Taft, 108. Those who were open to persuasion were talking more & more about Senator Arthur Vandenberg...
...start talking about the men he had in mind for his Cabinet. The Secretary of the Interior, he promised, would certainly be a westerner. For Secretary of State, he announced, he had two men in mind: his longtime adviser John Foster Dulles and his unannounced presidential rival, Arthur Vandenberg...