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Behind the silken curtain, indignation changed to indifference. Dr. Gallup's pollsters found that Wallace's following among Democrats had dropped from 24% a year ago to a lowly 9%. Boomed Senator Arthur Vandenberg: "I am not interested in itinerant saboteurs...
Canada's good neighbor, Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan, is worried about a vacant chair. For 37 years, ever since the Pan American Union moved into its marble-and-mahogany palace on Washington's 17th Street, 21 chairs (one for each of the American republics) have stood around the board of governors' table. In the basement, under wraps, is a 22nd chair, identical with the others except that on its high back are carved the name and arms of Canada...
...been empty long enough," cried Vandenberg last week at a Pan American Day celebration in Washington. ". . . By every rule of righteousness [Canada] is eligible to this association. ... I would welcome the final and total New World unity which will be nobly dramatized when the 22nd chair is filled and our continental brotherhood is complete from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn...
Alone among the Dominion's leading newspapers, the Montreal Star supported Good Neighbor Vandenberg: "Many of our interests run with those of the union. We weaken our position by our lack of membership." The Government long ago decided that it would not occupy the 22nd chair until the people of Canada prodded it, and last week there was little prodding. The Ottawa Journal epitomized the Dominion's attitude: "Wouldn't it be better for us to stand aloof-working with nobody in particular, but the friends...
Said one Turkish editor: "We know that Truman and Vandenberg are battling for us and humanity. . . . But we must achieve democracy in our own way." Said a businessman: "Your dollars won't make us knuckle down any more than Russian threats." An aging Turkish intellectual summed up the situation confronting the U.S.'s new foreign policy: "It is difficult to give gracefully, and even more difficult to receive gracefully...