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...Protestants' Federal Council of Churches, was made chairman of the council's Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace. At the famed Mackinac Conference of 1943, where the Republican leadership as a group turned from isolationism, Dulles first met Fellow Republican Arthur Vandenberg. On Vandenberg's recommendation, Franklin Roosevelt in 1945 sent Dulles as a delegate to the San Francisco founding session of the United Nations, where his special contribution was a formula to safeguard Latin American regional interests...
Foreign Relations. Wisconsin's back-slapping Alexander Wiley, a self-described humorist, who was an ardent isolationist before Pearl Harbor, has now moved, thanks partly to his British-born bride, all the way to internationalism. He sees himself as a new Vandenberg; others see him merely as a new Wiley...
Buildup. In France to investigate Washington reports of "slow progress, bad conditions and bottlenecks," General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, U.S.A.F. Chief of Staff, found his crews living in damp, crowded tents, tramping across muddy fields to exhume crates of spare parts stacked in the open for lack of hangar space. Ground controllers still radio instructions to hovering planes from the backs of olivedrab trucks, parked near the runways. At the 48th Fighter Bomber's bleak, bare base at Chaumont, the Chief of Staff...
Conditions are improving, and U.S. General Lauris Norstad, NATO air commander in Central Europe, promised to have every one of his men in warm hutments before winter sets in. Impressed after five days' touring, Hoyt Vandenberg reported morale "damned good...
After visiting Norway, Sweden and England, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenberg settled down with his wife in Paris for a five-day stay and a round of official visits. Next major stops on his worldwide tour: Switzerland, Spain, North Africa, Italy, Turkey, Philippines, Korea, Japan, Alaska and "home, I hope...