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...years Michigan's delegation went to the Republican National Convention pledged to the same man: a favorite son, the late Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. This year National Committeeman Arthur Summerfield and State Chairman Owen J. ("Pat") Cleary decided to work for a unified, uninstructed delegation. They talked to every one of the 83 county delegations to the state convention. Their argument: uncommitted, Michigan would be in a better position to make deals at Chicago...
...ardent though insignificant member of the China Lobby, which includes among its charter members Dwight Eisenhower, who back in 1945 at Potsdam begged Truman to do all he could to keep Russia out of the Pacific War, the late Senator Vandenberg, and Senator Paul Douglas, may I point out a few facts that should be plain to experts and you and me alike...
...unless you agree with McCarthy that total appeasement of Mao was Acheson's desire. Certainly "waiting for the dust to settle" was as frank an admission of no policy whatsoever as one could give. Had the China Lobby been able to incite as vigorous a policy as our present Vandenberg Policy in Europe, most of our foreign difficulties would be over and we would not be in the grave peril we are now. Unfortunately, this country is going to pay for the weakness of the China Lobby for many years to come. Earl M. Kulp...
Finally, "most of our foreign difficulties" are not "ever" In Europe, In spite of the "Vandenberg Policy" (so named because it was Secretary of State Marshall who first outlined it), and to equate the problems facing China with these facing Western Europe, or to equate their relative Importance to the United States, requires the sublimes political naivete. Unfortunately, the strength of the Chinese Nationalists in Washington was not undermined by their weakness in China until this country had been supporting a doomed regime for far too many years...
...Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg explained to a House Appropriations subcommittee why the Air Force prefers suspenders: "A battle jacket with belted trousers is an unsightly appearing garment. Every time you lean over your shirt sticks out in back ..." Not only are airmen permitted suspenders, but "if I catch any without them, I will give them a piece of my mind...