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...Speaker of the House. The rivalry between Indiana's Charlie Halleck and Ohio's Clarence Brown for House majority leader will be fought out spiritedly; other candidates may complicate the race. But there was no sign of any deep developing rifts among the triumphant G.O.P. leaders. Vandenberg will preside over the Senate as president pro tem. Elderly (69) Wallace White, ineffectual minority leader during G.O.P. underdog days, will become majority leader by courtesy. The G.O.P. spark plug will be sparkless, plugging Bob Taft, serving as boss of the steering committee. Nebraska's Ken Wherry will be party...
This Waldorf-Astoria lunch was a portent of the big-time buildup to come, a publicity campaign sketched out by high-priced public-relations expert Edward L. Bernays. But part of the publicity that followed wasn't in the Bernays blueprint. To reporters. Wallace pooh-poohed Senator Vandenberg's conversion to internationalism, credited it to young (37), able James Reston, national reporter of the New York Times. Next day Reston wrote a letter to the editor of the Times. Said...
...gather . . . that I was portrayed as a sort of bush-league Svengali, who hypnotized Senator Vandenberg. ... I suppose I should write Mr. Wallace a little mash note and, coincidentally, congratulate you on having such a remarkable young man on your staff. . . . Honestly, I didn't save the Republic; it must have been some other reporter. ... I have never written any of the Senator's speeches or any part of them...
...Martin approved the bipartisan foreign policy of Vandenberg. But Taft had voted against many of the instruments of that policy: the World Bank and the World Fund, reciprocal trade agreements, the British loan. The continuation of such national policies could crack open and vitiate U.S. foreign policy...
From Nanking to London, there was much less uncertainty in the political prospect than in the economic. The essentials of the Byrnes-Vandenberg bipartisan internationalist line had been laid down so firmly that no well-informed observer expected the Republicans to repeat 1920 by pulling the U.S. back into its shell. But much of the world which had forgotten the extreme economic nationalism of the early New Deal remembered the Republican high-tariff tradition and the Republican pledges of rigid economy...