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Salvation in Limbo? A week before the secret leaked out, the President imparted it to the three Congressional members of the U.S. delegation to San Francisco: Senate's Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Connally, Michigan's potent Republican Arthur H. Vandenberg, New Jersey's Republican Representative Charles A. Eaton. Letting them in on the truth, the President swore them to secrecy...
Growled Arthur Vandenberg, who may well sway the U.S. Senate for or against any treaty ratifying a world charter: "I . . . deeply disagree. . . ." All three Congressmen made their disgust acidly plain to Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr., who had suddenly discovered spots on his shiny new world...
...Arthur Vandenberg stuck to his guns. In his Senate speech he had pointedly said: "Inevitably, many [of these decisions] unavoidably consult expediency. Expediency and justice frequently are not even on speaking terms with each other...
...memorandum was not made public, but one of its big points had previously been elaborated by Vandenberg on the floor of the Senate. He will insist that all decisions made during the war (Poland, Greece, Rumania, Yugoslavia, etc.) be re-viewed at the final peace conference. This proposal may have provoked W.W.C.'s outcry about imperialism. Pundit Walter Lippmann, frankly in favor of spheres of influence, cried that Senator Vandenberg's suggestion would cause "endless confusion." But Harold Stassen, internationalist, has also insisted that any world organization should include provision for peaceful change as it is needed...
...Soldier's Voice. Senator Vandenberg announced that, in formulating his plans for San Francisco, he would give top priority to the opinions of U.S. fighting men. He said he had already received a large batch of G.I. mail. He summed up the soldiers' opinions: "They are for an international organization, with the U.S. participating. But they very definitely do not want an international sucker made out of Uncle Sam. They want us to negotiate with our eyes open...