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This country, therefore should vote for a review conference in 1955, and if measures to limit the veto receive widespread support, the US should back them. Certain limitations such as the Vandenberg resolutions, in 1948 which would have outlawed the veto on questions of membership or the peaceful settlement of disputes, are desirable and would have a reasonable chance of passage in the senate. And a decision to abolish the veto would probably not affect the United States, for this country has always had enough supporters on the Security Council never to need the device. The USSR, on the other...
Last week, after a month's bout with virus pneumonia and a heart ailment, former U.S. Senator Blair Moody. 52, of Michigan, died suddenly in the University of Michigan hospital at Ann Arbor. A onetime Washington correspondent for the Detroit News, Democrat Moody was appointed to Arthur Vandenberg's seat by Governor G. Mennen Williams in 1951 and lost it to Republican Charles Potter in 1952. To millions of TViewers across the nation, he was remembered as one of the three rambunctious "Young Turks" (the others: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and "Soapy" Williams) at the 1952 Democratic Convention...
...through political channels: Williams, who hopes to see his name on the Democratic national ticket in 1956, had decided to seek an unprecedented fourth term as governor. The Williams-blessed candidate for Senator will be former Senator Blair Moody, the newspaper correspondent (Detroit News) who was appointed to Arthur Vandenberg's seat by Williams in 1951, then lost to Republican Charles Potter...
...cancer, and it was generally thought that he had made a remarkable recovery. But last summer, while playing golf, he complained of "bursitis" pains; examination at Walter Reed Hospital last October revealed widespread malignancy. After that, he was comatose most of the time, and last week, at 55, Hoyt Vandenberg died...
Died. General Hoyt S. (for Sanford) Vandenberg, 55, Air Force Chief of Staff from 1948 until his retirement last June; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...