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Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg is a normally cautious man with a good sense of history, and a fine sense of the politically appropriate remark. But all these admirable qualities melted in the Paris sunshine last week when he landed at Orly airfield...
Puzzled Frenchmen frowned. Editors scratched their chins. It made no historical sense, but one of the most important of U.S. Senators had obviously meant something by it. Several days later a girl reporter asked Vandenberg why he had called for revolution in France...
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg criticized U.N. for its self-inflicted title. (He would prefer UNO.) "Un what?" cried the distressed Senator. "It sounds like an emasculated affair. United Nations isn't that and can't be that. When you say, 'Un,' you haven't done anything but grunt." The Senator grunted...
Citizens' committees began to sprout and shout across the land. One, organized by Donald Nelson, attacked the Vandenberg amendment as "contrary to the historic constitutional principle of civilian control over all phases of American national policy...
...debate raged on. At week's end the State Department issued the Acheson report (see INTERNATIONAL) which would eventually vest primary control in UNO. Senators were in a tailspin. Hastily they withdrew into their chambers to think it all over again, while Mr. Vandenberg buckled down to write another amendment defining the functions of the military...