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Peace with Justice. Vandenberg spoke the next day. Again the gallery was crowded, and once again Lord Halifax sat in the front row, listening intently. Vandenberg was the man who had once led some Republicans in the ways of strict isolation...
...Vandenberg also spoke of peace-but peace with justice. The charter, said he, "invokes the moral pressures of the organized conscience of the world. There is no escape for any power, however great, from the clear responsibility which it will unavoidably assume before an outraged world if it takes to the warpath before it has exhausted these paths of peace...
...charter "in stark reality" a three-power military alliance? Said Vandenberg: "The world is at the mercy of Russia, Britain and the U.S. regardless of whether we form this league or not. Those happen to be the facts of life, but I submit that the world is even more at their mercy without the San Francisco charter than with...
...Senator sat down, colleagues and visitors, who had listened to him in almost hypnotic silence, broke into applause. Senators lined up to shake his hand. His famed speech of last Jan. 10 had foreshadowed the coming bipartisan approval of U.S. internationalism. Now Arthur Vandenberg had done it again...
Many a San Francisco delegate and observer, obsessed during the conference by the Big Power conflicts (see below), was pleasantly surprised when the job was done and the charter could be read as a whole. Some of them (notably Arthur Vandenberg-see U.S. AT WAR) felt like saying, as Ben Franklin did, after the U.S. Constitution was drafted in 1787: "I confess I do not entirely approve of this constitution at present. ... I consent . . . because I expect no better and because I am not sure it is not the best. . . . It astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching...