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What explains the U.S.'s basic majority? Answers Henry Cabot Lodge: "Not our material power alone, but that spiritual bond between us and other nations because of the ideals we share. The leaders of most of the countries of the world firmly believe that we stand for the right things and that we deeply want peace. They do not rejoice when we have misfortunes. At heart they want us to be successful. This is a precious asset."
* Although it was left to Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg to insist that the Charter contain a reference to law and justice as the basis for peace. * On his father's side: Massachusetts' George Cabot, Elijah Hunt Mills, Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. On his mother's side: Massachusetts' John Davis, New Jersey's Frederick Frelinghuysen and Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen.
† His poems, mostly melancholy in mood, sound forced to present-day ears. Better-than-average sample:
Life fares and feasts, and Memory counts
the cost
With unrelenting lips that dare confess Life's secret failures, sins and loneliness, And life's exalted hopes, defiled and crossed.