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Senator still suffers from pains
in his chest, back and legs and
neither sleeps nor eats properly.
Denying contrary rumors. his
physicians have. however, told the
Senator's family that whole series
of tests and surgical checks have
shown no evidence of malignancy.
They attribute his present discom-
fort to nerve upsets resulting from
lung and spinal operations and
the recent death of his wife.
Senator Vandenberg, they re-
ported, has good days." when he
walks in the yard outside his home.
On election day he was driven to
the pools, rejected the suggestion
that he be given preferential
treatment and waited in a long
line until it was his turn to vote.
The Senator's resignation talk
serious, it is reported. when. he
has bad days"-is based on his
repeated insistence that he is not
going to repeat the reer-windup
performance of two of his once-
famous colleagues: Senators Carr
ter Glass of Virginia and Robert
Wagner of New York. both of
whom held their seats during sew
eral final years of illness.
Senator Vandenberg's desire to
get back to the Senate floor re-
portedly has been increased by
the election of ultra conservative
Republicans and the fact that
Senators Thomas of Utah. Tydings
of Maryland and Pepper of
Florida. the third. fourth and fifth
ranking Democrats on the Foreign
Relations Committee have all been
defeated. Each of the three
backed the bipartisan foreign pol
icy consistently.
If he can return, it is calculated
that Senator Vandenberg will be
able particularly to influence three
key and victorious Republicans:
Senators Robert A. Taft of Ohio
and Eugene D. Millikin of Colo
RADIO, and Senator elect Everett
M. Dirksen of Illinois.
Both Senator Taft and Senator
Millikin return to the Senate in
debted to Senator Vandenberg for
positive reelection help. Sup
porters of both, it was learned
here today. asked Michigan Re-
publican National Committeeman
Arthur E. Summerfield to see If
Senator Vandenberg would issue
statements in their behalf. In
each case, Senator Vandenberg
said he was willing to help but
would not do so unless the two
personally said they wanted him
to- intervene.
Senator Millikin made his re-
quest some days before the elec-
tion. Senator Taft wired Senator
Vandenberg last Friday and got
an immediate response in which
the Michigan Senator said, in
effect, that, if there was such a
thing as an indispensable" Sen
ator, it was Senator Taft. The
statement was widely pubiicized
in Mondays election-eve editions
of Ohio papers. In Mr.. Dirksen's
case, Senator Vandenberg will be
approaching the new Illinois Sen
ator on the basis of personal
friendship, past congressional
partnership and the memory of a
friendly effort recently made.
While Mr.. Dirksen was a House
member, he and his wife and the
Vandenbergs were constantly to-
gether. An internationalist him
self, until he suddenly switched
nine months ago and won Chi
cago Tribune backing for the Sen
ate, Mr.. Dirksen was Senator
Vandenberg's chief House ally in
the 80th Congress battles to adopt
and finance the Marshall Plan
Finally, it was recalled here, Sen
dtor Vandenberg did everything
possible after the 1948 election to
promote Mr.. DirkSen's ambition
to become chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee.
Maybe" a Vandenberg friend
said, Everett dirksen, would have
enough nerve to look Vandenberg
in the eye and say he is against
him. But I doubt It,"
One of Senator >Vandenberg's
recent regrets was that he felt
physically unable to accept a Re-
publican National Committee re-
quest to answer President Tru-
mans final campaign radio ad-
dress last Saturday night.
His Republican colleagues
WANTED him to answer, on the
theory that the time had come
| for him to break his. two-year
public silence on the matter and