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...Defense production was a national headache, too. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg's report on his return from Korea underlined the fact that we lag woefully behind the Communists in numbers...
...natural trouble of a Democrat who took over a Republican's expiring term in a Republican state. Moody has been cruising along the byways to get acquainted, standing before audiences for hours answering questions. The greatest threat to him is that the Republicans may get a candidate named Vandenberg. One possibility is Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr., son of the man whose death last year sent Moody to the Senate. A less likely possibility: General Hoyt Vandenberg, 53, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force and nephew of the late Senator. The general's term is expiring...
...London, her parents announced that Lieut. Hoyt S. Vandenberg Jr., 23, son of the Air Force chief of staff, had won the hand of Sue Rosannah Johnson, 19, daughter of Major General Leon Johnson, Medal of Honor man (the Ploesti raid) and boss of the Third U.S. Air Force in Britain. They will be married at Mitchel Field, Long Island, after her father takes over his new job as commander of the Continental Air Command...
...Naval Operations Admiral William Fechteler spelled out publicly just how his ships & men could act: "If the truce negotiations break down, the Navy is prepared to broaden the scope of its operations . . . We have the capability of blockading the China coast." The Air Force's General Hoyt Vandenberg was equally ready for strategic attacks on the China mainland...
...Generals Omar Bradley, Joe Collins and Hoyt Vandenberg and their British opposites listened sympathetically, but they were not empowered to give France the specific military promise it wanted. Two days later however, in a speech in New York, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden beamed a crucial warning to the Communists. "It should be understood," he said, "that the intervention by force by Chinese Communists in Southeast Asia-even if they were called vol- unteers-would create a situation no less menacing than that which the United Nations met and faced in Korea. In any such event the United Nations should...