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...Senators who voted down Vice-President Barkley's anti-filibuster ruling on Friday, exactly half were Republicans. Most of the GOP bloc was from the conservative Mid-West, led by Arthur Vandenberg. The issue, as Vandenberg put it, was not civil rights. The Republicans indeed clasped these rights to their bosoms many years ago. Vandenberg disagreed with Barkley on principle; he just felt that the Parliamentary rule in question did not apply to debate on a motion to introduce a measure. To pretend that it did, Vandenberg said, would be tainting the worthy end of civil rights by using unwholesome...
...difficult to disagree with anyone who claims that the means do not justify the end. But Senator Vandenberg has clouded the argument by his appeal for cricket. When the rule was adopted in 1917, its purpose was to allow two-thirds of the Senate to prevent a filibuster; the fact that later on the Dixiecrats joyfully discovered a loephole is unfortunate, yet Barkley's effort to plug that loophole seems in no way a breach of ethics...
...Hoover. 4. Vandenberg...
...Vandenberg spoke out of the deep good humor of a man without political worries. Before the speech, he had announced that he was retiring from public life in 1952. Said Vandenberg: "By then, I will have been in the Senate for 25 years, and I will be 68 years old. This is my last...
...also given him the answer. After six months of negotiations, the Atlantic pact powers had agreed that an attack upon one nation was to be regarded as an attack upon all. Each nation was required to take "military or other action" to help the nation attacked. Senators Connally and Vandenberg balked, insisting that the word "military" be cut out, making the clause read that the parties would take "action...