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From Religion: Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, will discuss the U.S. spiritual role in the world. He has proclaimed it thus: "America has been, and must ever continue to be, under God, the Beacon of Liberty . . . the proof that humanity can live in mutual respect based on the law of God, voiced through the conscience of man, and in mutual esteem, based on the responsibility of democratic life." Cardinal Spellman, the closest U.S. friend of Pope Pius XII, is as American as an apple dumpling — a onetime trolley-car conductor who now holds an airplane pilot's license. During the war, as Military Vicar to the U.S. Armed Forces (and chief of about 5,000 Catholic chaplains) and as a frequent Vatican envoy, he became one of the world's most traveled men (120,000 miles).
From Congress: Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, who has done the most to put and keep U.S. foreign policy on a bipartisan basis, will speak in the new G.O.P.-controlled Congress with even more authority than he wielded last year. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, his influence in uniting Senate action on the broad objectives of world security will be greatly enhanced. He firmly believes that U.S. policy, as it is today, will succeed — "unless it is scuttled here at home."
In 1947 U.S. policies will be expressed largely in economic terms and Vandenberg has already ad dressed himself to the task of mobilizing congressional support for foreign economic policies which will implement U.S. political efforts. Senator Vandenberg's approach is realistic. He has cautioned that the U.S. is not rich enough to "become permanent almoner to the whole earth." That remark does not foreshadow a return to economic isolationism. Vandenberg well understands that the world's reconstruction needs may continue to call for U.S. sacrifices. Says he: "As much as anything, I am concerned about our own psychology, the continued reiteration of our congenital impatience."
From the Administration: In the 18 months he has been Secretary of State, James Francis Byrnes has been largely occupied with international conferences — the Big Four, the U.N., the 21-nation meeting in Paris. The climax of these meetings, often deadlocked and always difficult, came with the simultaneous sessions of U.N. and the Foreign Ministers in New York. At these meetings the U.S. policy of "patience and firmness" with Russia began to bear fruit after a year of frustration and delay in the making of the peace. After the New York adjournments Byrnes left for a well-earned vacation. The Cleveland speech will be his first since the New York sessions. It will also be the first time that Byrnes and Vandenberg have ever appeared together before the general public; the audience will be large — for the final session Mayor Burke has afforded use of Cleveland's big Public Auditorium (seating capacity 12,000).