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...Mississippi's bigoted Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo from taking his seat in the Senate, had finally confirmed David Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Taft shared credit for the first job and blame for the long delay in the Lilienthal case. Under the whip of Arthur Vandenberg, the 80th had backed the "bipartisan" foreign policy. Whether that backing would continue would depend somewhat on President Truman, somewhat on domestic politics. There were signs that the honeymoon was going stale...
...happiest conversions in U.S. politics. Without it, the unity which marked U.S. foreign policy might have been a long time coming. Vandenberg was an industrious Republican attendant at the San Francisco birth of U.N. He was a Republican bulwark at the London and Paris meetings in 1946. He is today the man on whom the unity of U.S. foreign policy largely depends...
Selective Pattern. It was important then for the U.S. to know to what point Arthur Vandenberg's education had brought...
...brought him first to the bipartisanship now so generally applauded. But Senator Vandenberg has set definite limits to the bipartisan policy. "Bipartisanship," he says, covers all U.S. dealings to date with U.N., and U.S. dealings in the several peace conferences. But it stops, and should stop there. It does not extend to the vacillating and contradictory U.S. policy in China-which is now in a state of unanimated suspension-or to the policy in Latin America-now operating in a vacuum created by Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden...
...Senator Vandenberg has wholeheartedly supported the bill to aid Greece and Turkey-aid which was pointed up this week by the arrival of the U.S. aircraft carrier Leyte off Istanbul. He led the fight for the bill's passage in the Senate. There he successfully warded off the waspish Left and the economy-minded Right. Thus, if the Truman Doctrine applies only to Greek-Turkish aid, Vandenberg supports it. But he does not think that the bipartisan policy extends to the Truman Doctrine. He does not consider it a doctrine at all, but merely a "selective pattern...