Last week, with the Japanese still stuttering in astonishment over the abrogation of the 1911 treaty (TIME, Feb. 5), Columnist Walter Lippmann took a good look at U. S. Far East policy. What he saw he viewed with alarm. A good part of the responsibility for what he saw he placed squarely on one man: Senator Arthur Vandenberg.
A strict isolationist, Senator Vandenberg helped lead the Senate opposition last October to repeal of the arms embargo.
And yet, wrote Mr. Lippmann in his column, it was his resolution, introduced in July, which prepared the way for the abrogation of the 1911 treaty with...