Word: bipartisanship
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...foreign policy, cooperation and the factual spirit had for some time been conspicuously lacking. The Democrats, if they wanted bipartisanship, would have to do more to include the Republicans, as Vandenberg once put it, in the "takeoffs as well as the crash landings" of foreign policy. And Republicans on their side had a duty to criticize, but they also had the duty to be responsible about...
...Europe and mice in Asia?" Not all Republicans felt so strongly. Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, the party's chief spokesman on foreign policy, still shied from discussing Formosa "until all the facts are available." But he repeated an old theme: if there's to be genuine bipartisanship, the Republicans should be consulted on the take-offs as well as after the crashes of foreign policy...
...brought him first to the bipartisanship now so generally applauded. But Senator Vandenberg has set definite limits to the bipartisan policy. "Bipartisanship," he says, covers all U.S. dealings to date with U.N., and U.S. dealings in the several peace conferences. But it stops, and should stop there. It does not extend to the vacillating and contradictory U.S. policy in China-which is now in a state of unanimated suspension-or to the policy in Latin America-now operating in a vacuum created by Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden...