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They had tentatively agreed on a bill, drafted by Committee Chairman Brien McMahon, which set up a control commission of five civilians. Then they tacked on (by a 10-to-1 vote) an amendment by Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg. It provided for a military board which would have access to all the commission's information and could appeal to the President if anything the civilians did seemed "inimical to the common defense." They also tacked on an amendment by Connecticut's Senator Thomas Hart, adding an advisory board of nine part-time experts to the commission...
...Vandenberg amendment was a compromise. "The military committee's only power," Vandenberg explained, "is to say 'Stop, look and listen" . . . the minimum consideration of national defense which this situation requires...
...Bomb, to Senator Pepper, was the "newest form of isolationism." He attacked Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg as "the most vigorous and powerful advocate" of that isolationism. He answered Vandenberg's question of the week before-"What is Russia up to?" -with another question: "What is America...
...fact way-two years, five years, what will you bet?" On the Continent the schism between Russia and the West was forcing the great mass of moderate men into two opposing camps, with the extremists in both getting ready for "when war comes." As Jimmy Byrnes and Arthur Vandenberg spoke of a stronger U.S. foreign policy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), war talk was also heard...
Britons welcomed the Byrnes and Vandenberg speeches as at least indirect backing. Though the U.S. was not likely to guarantee the British Empire against rising colonial peoples, minimum U.S. interests require that Russia does not replace Britain in any major area which Britain may relinquish...