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...flames from its No. 4 engine, swung back to the field but plowed into the tideland muck 500 feet short of the runway. The toll: five dead. So far in November two other B-29s had gone down, both because of engine trouble. Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg grounded all B-29s whose engines had not been overhauled and modernized...
...delegation, and more recently he was appointed by Governor Dowey to fill a vacant Senate seat. In both these positions he showed great interest in international affairs, but all the importance features of our present policy have been determined by the Democratic Secretaries of State and chiefly Senator Vandenberg for the Republicans...
...taking undue honors upon himself, Mr. Dulles has not only breached the good faith on which our bi-partisan foreign policy was formed, but he has been unjust to these Republicans, such as Senator Vandenberg, who truly have a right to their party's share of the credit. Arthur J. Marter...
...Said Vandenberg: the nation had to "counterbalance the potential enemy's masses of ground troops . . . No such balancing factor exists other than strategic bombing, including the atomic bomb...
...Force's Secretary W. Stuart Symington backed up Vandenberg, and deplored the whole public airing of the country's military doctrines. "Lightning Joe" Collins denied any Army plot to swallow up the Navy's Marine Corps as had been charged in the Navy's case...