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After the Senate session, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg, chief Republican spokesman on foreign affairs, issued a statement: "It reaffirms basic principles of justice to which we are deeply attached, and it undertakes for the first time to implement these principles by direct action...
Thereupon, Henry Wallace launched into as clear, bristling and forthright a political speech as he has ever made. (Even Senator Vandenberg complimented him on his " able presentation.") Henry Wallace talked of implementing the President's "Economic Bill of Rights": of more jobs and more foreign trade, of increased post war production and a continued high national income, of high wages and a guaranteed annual wage, of safeguarding free enterprise for private industry and blasting monopolies and cartels, of more houses and better roads, of public works and more TVAs, of health insurance and expended social security and more education...
When he sits down over a drink with Winston Churchill (scotch & soda) and Joseph Stalin (vodka), Franklin Roosevelt (old fashioned) will have at least two strong cards up his sleeve. One of them was put there by Senator Arthur Vandenberg's strong speech on U.S. participation in world politics (TIME, Jan. 22). The other was provided last week by the new members of the Senate...
There was more than a hint that the emissaries were engaged in an even more important job: helping to make up Franklin Roosevelt's mind whether, at the big meeting, he should not only try to cook but cook with gas. With the backing of the Vandenberg speech and the letter of the new Senators (see below), he might decide to take Congress at its word and offer to make commitments for the U.S.-if, in exchange, he could get commitments from Britain and Russia that rival imperialisms would not dominate the new peace. It looked very much...
Atmosphere Cleared. Inevitably, there were some weaknesses and some omissions in the Vandenberg plan. Russia is not at war with Japan and therefore presumably would not sign a treaty regarding her. The plan does not specify the machinery for enforcing permanent disarmament of the Axis. Nor does it guarantee that Britain and Russia, having committed the U.S. to use force to keep Germany and Japan disarmed, might not then decide to junk the Dumbarton Oaks proposals as an unnecessary obstacle to their future freedom of action...