Senator Arthur Vandenberg, home from the UNO conference in London, was well aware of the feelings of his fellow delegates, of gloom on the one hand, of trepidation on the other. He decided that it was past time for someone to speak out.
The speech, before his respectful colleagues in the Senate, was brief. It was a statement of a nation's sense of pride and justice. It was a challenge to the Administration, Russia, the world and the U.S.
Will UNO Work? The onetime rabid isolationist reaffirmed his faith in a United Nations: "I do not share the melancholy pessimism heard in...
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