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That Arthur Vandenberg, once a rock-ribbed isolationist, should thus become a man whose actions and opinions could do so much to shape the peace of the world was a sizable fact. He could have become the Henry Cabot Lodge of 1945, but he did not. Like the U.S., he had learned the hard way: the deadly march of worldwide war had shown him what was wrong with isolationism. It had not been a sudden change: like the U.S., he had come a long, slow way since...
...Speech. Ever since his famed Senate speech of last Jan. 10, Vandenberg had been the marked man of U.S. foreign relations. The most concrete thing he said in that speech was a recommendation that the U.S. and her major allies sign an immediate treaty to keep Germany disarmed by force. This was not a new idea. What gave it international impact was the fact that a leading member of the opposition said it, the earnest way he said it, and the effect of his words on his party and the U.S. at large...
...reason I made that speech," Vandenberg says, "is that I felt that things were drifting. We were in a vacuum...
Franklin Roosevelt liked the speech. He knew it would strengthen his hand at Yalta (he took 50 copies along). At Yalta he also made Arthur Vandenberg a mem ber of the U.S. delegation to San Francisco...
...interval between Yalta and San Francisco, Senator Vandenberg worked long & hard at another project: to liberal ize the provisions of Dumbarton Oaks...