Evening star., 1951-04-19

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.leampaigner. who has been credited
with keeping the present Demo
cratic State administration out
of troublesome labor disputes.
4 An Associated Press dispatch
indicated that former Senator
Brown, now chairman of the
board of the Detroit Edison Co.
would be considered if it proves
|difficult to agree on one of the
other three, .,-.
Renounced Isoiationism.
! January 10. 41945. was the key
day in the life of Senator Van
denberg. ..... y
On that day he stood on tfae
floor of the United States Sen,
late and renounced his isolation.
list past. Like all converts, he be-
came the most jealous of those
who shared his new faith-inter-
Enationalisna. sea-
Republicans and D.emocr ats
alike expressed regret when Sen
Iator Vandenberg announced, in a
104s Lincoln's Day speech. that he
thad decided to quit public life
after 1852.
! When controversy ragged in and
out of Congress concerning
charges of Communist influence
in the State Department, Senator
Vandenberg last March urged an
bipartisan" study of steps to
be taken in the cold war after
the Marshall Plan ended. Presi-
dent Truman wrote to thank him
for his consistent aid in the ad-
vancement of this country's for
eign policy and his bipartisan ap-
Eproach to foreign affairs.
Senator Vandenberg was widely
credited with having had a hand
in the appointments of John Fos-
ter Dulles, former New York Re-
publican Senator and expert on
foreign affairs, as a top consult
ant to Secretary of State Ache
son.
Not Always the Same.
But this Senator Vandenberg
had not always been the same
man. -,
AS an author, he once wrote
that ''nationaliSm--~noti interna-
tionalism-is the Indispensable
buIwark of American independ-
Ience." AS a newspaper editor, ,Ahe
fought the old League of Nations
after World War I. AS Senator
he led the fight against amending
the Neutrality Act to permit arms
shipments to Great Britain at the
beginning of the second war in
Europe. He also opposed lend
lease. . =,
But when the United States en-
tered the war he loyalty supported
all war measures and gradually
became internationally minded.
In 1914, Senator Vandenberg
was instrumental in writing into
the Republican Party's platform a
plank favoring employment OF
force to maintain peace. He in
4terpreted that to mean whatever
force moral, economic, diploma
tic or military-may be necessary
to keep the peace when such
emergency arises" "a. ,s
Then on January TO-. T945, Sen
ator Vandenberg made the Senate
speech that took him completely
away from isolationism. -
Helped to Create U. N.
| He called for the American Gov
ernment to "relight the torch" of
1the Atlantic Charter by, stating
that it had not altered its original
teommitmentS to the principles of
THAT warborn code He proposed
too, that the major Allies sigh a
treaty for the -empto1'y use 'ot
force" to keep Germany and ia
pan demiiitarized. =
Then he helped to create the
United Nations and .-Strove to
make it a vital. force for peace
More than any other man, per-
haps. Senator Vandenberg was
responsible for the. Senate's over
whelming approval of United
States adherence to it. He was
appointed by President Roosevelt
aas a delegate to the 1945 San
francisco Conference that formed
THE security organization. With
out it. he said, the prospects for
peace would be "ass dark as mid
night"
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes relied heavily upon him as
an adviser at meetings with. for
eign ministers of other great pow
ers and at the Paris Peace Con
ference in 1916.
h. F0stered Bipartisan Policy.
George c. Marshall, who sue
tceeded Mr.. Byrnes as Secretary of
State, also received Senator VAN
denberg' s whole hearted co-opera-
ftion.
AS the Senate's presiding officer
in the 80th Congress he was its
president protempore-a chair
man of the Foreign Relations
Committee, Senator Vandenberg
bad a major part in American
foreign policy making. He par
tieipated in various international
negotiations.
i In the cold war" with Russia,
Senator Vandenberg was the chief
Republican exponent of this coun-
i try's J bipartisan foreign policy.
He warned the Soviet Union that
1.-THE United States might join
Western Europe IN a military al
lance against Communist aggres-
lsion. =.
! Senator Vanderberg successfully
fought for approval Of a moment,