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...rose Michigan's erect and greying Arthur Vandenberg, the Senate's other San Francisco delegate. Arthur Vandenberg is an accomplished and resounding orator. His usual custom is to pile his desk high with green-bound copies of the Congressional Record, lay his carefully prepared manuscript on top, thus leaving his arms free for gestures. Sometimes he has a small lectern brought in. But this time Senator Vandenberg used neither lectern nor notes...
...charter to come out of San Francisco-did not expect the millennium. But it seemed determined to help achieve some semblance of world order and U.S. adherence thereto, if it was at all possible. That determination was in good part due to a man from Michigan-Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg...
...conference opened this week, Arthur Vandenberg was unquestionably the most important U.S. delegate present, and perhaps the single most important man. Molotov would loom large because of the power he wields by proxy from the Kremlin; Eden would command consideration as the spokesman and heir apparent of Churchill. But by & large the success of a world security organization would stand or fall on the question of U.S. adherence. And the answer to that question lay with Senator Vandenberg...
...Franklin Roosevelt lived, he would doubtless have dominated San Francisco. With him on the scene, most foreign nations would have felt that, somehow or other, he would have persuaded or cajoled the U.S. Senate into line. Now that he was dead, the power lay more heavily than ever in Vandenberg's hands. The passing of Franklin Roosevelt had vastly increased the weight of Vandenberg's influence with the U.S. Senate...
...First Fruits. Truman told Stettinius and the Senate delegates, Connally and Vandenberg, to run their show-and run it well- at the San Francisco conference. Characteristically and instinctively, he decided that he had better stay away. Too much of U.S. diplomacy was buried with Mr. Roosevelt. Too much was yet to be absorbed, weighed, reappraised in conversations with Byrnes and Stettinius...