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ROBERT L. VANDENBERG Lieutenant...
...with fascism-an effort in which they were aided by characters on the lunatic Right such as Gerald Smith who spoke in his favor. And there arose the unseemly sport of "smearing" MacArthur. But generally, despite an occasional serious utterance such as the open advocacy of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, most of the press and radio kept dead-pan to the attitude that MacArthur-for-President was not a proper subject for discussion...
...Senate last week Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg protested the fact that the Army's War College Library had just recommended for soldier readers a magazine article bitterly hostile to General Douglas MacArthur and his Presidential boom. In the American Mercury a freelancing writer named John McCarten* had belittled General MacArthur's talents and charged that "the worst elements on the political right, including its most blatant lunatic fringe, are whooping it up for MacArthur...
Said Senator Vandenberg: "I am one of the sinister 'backers.' . . . A smear article if ever I read one in my life...
...Charley's cloakroom finesse; his likeliest successors are men more apt to give open battle on the floor. Three men are in line. One is Acting Leader Wallace White of Maine, who will get the job if the law of inertia applies. Another is Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, first in line by seniority and prestige, who may refuse it in order to keep his individual freedom. Third choice, favored by the Party's Young Turks, is Ohio's contentious, conscientious Robert A. Taft, the man reputedly with the most brains...