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...Christmas Blubber." With gay disregard of military protocol, Molly had drawn up a big guest list. It included Mrs. Hoyt Vandenberg, wife of the Air Force chief (who was off on an inspection tour in Korea); the formidable Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, a doyenne of Washington society; Mrs. Cyrus Ching; Mr. & Mrs. Leslie Biffle; Lord and Lady Tedder-and, of course-Colonel May. A few of the guests were missing, but surveying the crowd, Molly thought it best to move to General Vandenberg's own office...
...most emphatic proposal of all came from New Hampshire's Styles Bridges. An internationalist who has sat in the Senate longer than any Republican save Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg, Bridges believes that the U.S. is already waging World War IIIand losing it. Bridges called on the U.S. to recognize that it is in a state of war with Russia without formally declaring its existence. Except for his all-out attack on the Administration and the wavering conduct of its foreign policy, it was the polar opposite to the Hoover-Taft position. His specific proposals...
General Collins' announcement followed the arrival in Tokyo of a bevy of top Washington brass for secret powwows with Douglas Mac Arthur. Besides Collins, the visitors included Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg, Central Intelligence Agency Chief Walter Bedell Smith, Army Chief of Intelligence Alexander Boiling. Guesses flew thick & fast around the Dai Ichi building, ranging even to the surmise that Nationalist China's armies on Formosa might be brought to bear against Mao Tse-tung's hordes...
...months immediately following Acheson's induction as Secretary, the West even held the momentary initiative. Acheson presided over the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty creating (on paper) a collective defense system. The idea had not been his; it had originated in a resolution presented by Senator Arthur Vandenberg, approved by a Republican Senate in the 80th Congress by a 64-to-4 vote. But Acheson had earnestly carried it through. He saw the Russians, outsmarted by the allies' great airlift, give up the Berlin blockade...
...show of shows was the pilgrimage of the 193-man presidential party-Cabinet members, old congressional friends and reporters-to the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia. (Defense Secretary George Marshall and Joint Staff Chiefs Bradley, Sherman and Vandenberg went up on their own. "Missing it," explained Sherman, "might have caused more of a flurry than going.") A special pilot engine, tugging three cars full of Secret Service agents and railroad detectives, pulled out five minutes ahead of the presidential special to scout out possible sabotage along the 133-mile...