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Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes had come back from the Paris failure with renewed determination rather than disheartenment. His proposal to throw the whole peace-making machinery into the United Nations was a diplomatic masterstroke (TIME, May 27). Then Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, an aide to Byrnes at Paris, rose in the Senate to define U.S. policy, and give it his unqualified support. Said...
...Then Jimmy Byrnes, with a shrewd Irish glance at the silent gathering, shrewdly moved that the points of disagreement be summarized and submitted to a 21-power peace conference on June 15, with an acknowledgment that the Big Four had failed to agree. He sat back, winked at Arthur Vandenberg, awaited reactions. For five long minutes-"it seemed like 30," said one witness-nobody spoke. Then Bidault said quietly that this seemed like a good idea. Bevin nodded thoughtfully.* Molotov whispered into the ear of Interpreter Vladimir Pavlov, who announced that Russia would like to think it over...
...really ready to take on all the onerous and hazardous chores of world participation? In Paris, after a particularly sour session of the Big Four "peace conference," Senator Arthur Vandenberg wryly remarked: "Life was simple for me when I was an isolationist. Another couple of days of this and I'll be more isolationist than ever...
Actually such a reversal would be inconceivable to Vandenberg, who understands the impossibility of withdrawal. Did the people also understand...
...Gazeta Ludowa was permitted to print only watered-down versions of the Peasant Party attack on Communist control. . . . Such restraints do not apply to the Communist organ Glos Ludu, which can fill its columns with reckless charges against Mikolajczyk. This journal's recent reference to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan, as 'a sworn and deserving follower and defender of Hitler' will give some measure of its madness...