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...Washington indignation mounted. Arkansas' scholarly Senator Fulbright declared: "His speech sounded just as though it had been written in the Kremlin." And Foreign Relations Chairman Arthur Vandenberg cried: "It is a shocking thing when an American citizen goes abroad to speak against his own government. The important question is not what Mr. Wallace will do in 1948, but what he is doing...
...weight of the G.O.P. leadership-Policy Committee Chairman Robert Taft, Majority Leader Wallace White, Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry-and 23 GOPsters had loyally backed them up. But more significant was the fact that 20 Republicans had broken away to follow the lead of Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg in voting for confirmation. With 37 of the 44 Democrats voting or paired for approval, the truant Republicans provided the margin of victory. It was a personal triumph for Arthur Vandenberg...
Space was cleared in Congress last week for the fight over labor. The Lilienthal case was settled. Pushed by Arthur Vandenberg, the aid-to-Greece and Turkey measure was ready to be passed this week. Congress could now concentrate on labor...
...Enthusiasm. No one interrupted Vandenberg during his speech; at its conclusion the gallery was in a forbidden uproar of handclapping, and Senators from both sides of the aisle were wringing Vandenberg's hand. Rarely in history has a speech changed votes; but most Senators agreed that this was one such historic occasion...
After his speech, even Vandenberg seemed anxious to set himself straight on that point. Said he to a friend: "If anybody had told me a year ago that I would be making an all-out effort in behalf of David Lilienthal, I would have thought him crazy. But it was a political lynching that was going...