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City or Campus? In London, U.S. Delegate Arthur H. Vandenberg, who figured that the UNO committee had brought all its troubles on itself, rumbled: "Any suggestion that this organization needs anything like 45 square miles of high-priced area for its headquarters is fabulous and fantastic." Instead of spending up to $70,000,000 on land and buildings, why not settle for something the size of "a comfortable college campus...
They stared at the business-like Russians, who were among the first to arrive. France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and U.S. Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg drew long, appraising looks. There were "ohs" and "ahs" for the Chinese, and for the Saudi Arabians in their green robes piped with white. There were a few cheers for Ernest Bevin, more for black-clad Eleanor Roosevelt...
Cares & Comforts. In the great cream-&-fawn meeting hall, there was a bustle of photographers around the Big Three delegations. Senator Vandenberg grandly promised a Saudi Arabian delegate: "We'll take care...
When the Foreign Ministers' communiqué showed that the successive stages had been kept, Republican Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan hit the roof. With ample senatorial backing, he stormed to the White House, got a Truman promise that no U.S. atomic secrets would be released until a full security system is in effect. He also got assurance from the State Department that the four stages were really meant to be simultaneous. If so, this passage in the Moscow communiqué was even more cryptically worded than other Big Three statements...
...Senate, which had heard all this before, calmly went about confirming Mrs. Roosevelt's appointment. Quickly they approved the rest of the first-string team the President wanted to send to London-former Secretary of State Ed Stettinius, Democratic Senator Tom Connally, Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes. But the debate had only begun. As the names of Harry Truman's five alternate delegates were read, Arkansas' liberal Democrat J. William Fulbright got up with a glitter...