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...simply are for Russia!" roared Texas' Tom Connally. "What do you want us to do-just sit down and let Russia absorb the world and do nothing about it?" Equally annoyed but more restrained, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg chided Wallace: "I cannot condone your conduct in going about insisting that your country ... is bent on world conquest in one form or another." But in two hours of shouted questions and evasive answers, Henry Wallace had one response which nobody challenged. Said Henry: "I think for her own interests Russia would be utterly foolish to carry...
...Little Too Far." In their effort to line up a two-thirds majority for the treaty, Connally and Michigan's ranking Republican Arthur Vandenberg might have preferred a little less candor from the Secretary of State. Many a Senate fence-straddler, like Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, was willing to buy the pact if he could dodge paying the arms bill later. Pussyfooting Tom Connally thought Acheson went "a little too far," in his answer; a Senator's only voting guide was his "conviction and conscience." Vandenberg was afraid the Senate was getting its "eyes glued...
...attack on Russia, and to tell Western Europeans that the U.S. wanted them to fight the ground war if it came. If Cannon thought he was stating the case for the Air Force over their naval competitors, he was mistaken. The Air Force's Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg was indeed confident that his airmen could reach almost anywhere with their intercontinental B-36 bombers, starting from U.S. bases. But no responsible airman claimed that the Air Force could win a war without the naval ships and planes to keep command of the seas and an army to finish...
...British embassy managed a stag dinner for Ernie Bevin with Secretary Acheson and Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg. Acheson also dined at the French embassy, but other hosts had to be content with lesser functionaries such as Under Secretary Webb (the Italian embassy) and Counselor "Chip" Bohlen (The Netherlands). The Scandinavians entertained each other...
...seventh day of debate the Senate had taken on all the rash-marks of a baby filibuster. But this time the opposition could not muster the votes. At week's end 23 Republicans lined up behind Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg to help 45 Democrats defeat a milder version of the Wherry amendment...