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Having done this, the U.S. would have "the duty and the right to demand that whatever immediate unilateral decisions have to be made in consequence of military need . . . they shall all be temporary and subject to final revision in the objective light of the postwar peace league." Said Senator Vandenberg: "I am prepared by effective international cooperation to do our full part in charting happier and safer tomorrows. But I am not prepared to guarantee permanently the spoils of an unjust peace. It will not work...
...where is the invisible point at which, for the airman, cooperation becomes seduction? It is the kind of argument that could go on forever. Last week Vandenberg and his men were too busy blasting Germans to join...
...well with Doolittle when he was Doolittle's chief of staff in Africa, but incurred his frowns for sneaking out on combat missions without letting Doolittle know. (Doolittle had wanted to go himself.) Once, on a flight to Gibraltar, Vandenberg manned a waist gun, helped drive off a German attacker while Doolittle took the place of the wounded copilot...
...Vandenberg (a nephew of Michigan's U.S. Senator) gets along with his crewmen and enlistees by talking air-slanguage with the slangiest of them,* playing volleyball and ping-pong with them, and usually beating them. A dashing figure in impeccable uniform, cap set at a rakish angle, he seems to be always in action. He usually flies his own Thunderbolt in hops to staff headquarters. Back at his own post, he wants a lot of his own staff around in the evening, insists on singing with a quartet although he cannot carry a tune...
...Vandenberg took over the Ninth last August, when Lieut. General Lewis H. Brereton was assigned command of the First Allied Airborne Army. Since then Vandenberg has wielded the weapon of his big air force with skill and devotion. If other top airmen had any criticism of the Ninth, it might be that its bosses had got to working too closely with ground-force commanders. The problem is a delicate one. Coordination of air and ground operations is highly important in battle, and nothing helps it more than good relations between the air and ground commanders. But it is the unalterable...