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Devastating Shoestring. The Air Forces' General Hoyt Vandenberg used his time chiefly to lobby for more airplanes. In his enthusiasm, he scooted in & out of a series of contradictions without so much as a furrow on his handsome, unlined face...
Instead of arguing-as had Marshall, Bradley and Collins-that bombing across the Yalu might bring World War III, Vandenberg was against it, for the moment at least, for his own reason: the job, he said, might chew up the Air Force and leave the U.S. "naked for several years to come" to Russian attack...
Does present air power give the U.S. a defense against Soviet atomic attack? "Today, yes sir," said Vandenberg, "but not tomorrow. As the power of the Russian air force increases and their stockpile of atomic weapons increases, the job of the U.S. Air Force becomes roughly doubled." He was not satisfied with "the present 30% guns, 70% butter" defense program, but he favored full mobilization only if "war was inevitable"-and he did not think that was the case, although he was pessimistic. He threw a scare into the Senators by declaring that the Russian MIG-15 (powered, like...
Earl Kulp '51, representing the Young Republicans, urged a return to bi-partisan foreign policy as conceived by the late Senator Vandenberg. He agreed that aid to Aela is vital and urged that "Truman should talk to Stalin in he has to walk through Red Square in sackcloth." Kai-Shek and at least reconnaissance missions over Manchuria...
Died. Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, 67, Republican Senator from Michigan since 1928, moving spirit of the bipartisan foreign policy; of cancer; in Grand Rapids, Mich, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...