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...Hamiltonian nationalist (he had written three books on his hero). In the years before World War II, his nationalism had led him into isolationism. On that day in January, he stood at a crossroads. The speech in which he announced his change of mind transcended party politics, laid the groundwork for bipartisanship in foreign policy ("unpartisanship" he preferred to call it), and lifted Congressmen up to a new faith. Senator Vandenberg was not the single author of bipartisanship, but he was its acknowledged leader. As such, and as the man who knew precisely what measures would get Senate approval...
...Groundwork. Counsel Halley had carefully laid the groundwork for his case against Frank Costello. First he called in a grey, glib Manhattan lawyer named George Morton Levy, who runs Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway (harness horses). Witness Levy admitted unabashedly that he regularly played golf with Costello, Bookmaker Frank Erickson and an internal revenue agent named Schoenbaum, and under Halley's persistent prodding, told a tale of Costello, the Boss of Bookies. Levy testified that in 1946 the New York racing commissioner threatened to revoke the track's license...
When Eisenhower and Gruenther take up their task in Europe early in January, they will have at their disposal the staff groundwork laid by the five Western Union governments (Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg). Last week Western Union agreed to merge its two-year-old joint staff (headquartered at Fontainebleau under British Field Marshal Lord Montgomery) with the new NATO high command...
...them, on Harry Truman's side, were Secretaries Acheson, Marshall, Snyder, General of the Army Omar Bradley; with Attlee were Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, Field Marshal Slim, Air Force Marshal Tedder. For an hour and 35 minutes, vowing they would come to a "mutual understanding," they laid the groundwork for discussions to come. Intermittently, behind closed doors, they talked for five consecutive days, while the noise of the katydids-planned "leaks" and planted rumors-rose around them...
...American take of the world's raw materials (about 50% of the total) might have to be cut. Last week at their Washington meetings Truman and Attlee laid the groundwork for an end to catch-as-catch-can buying (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Best guess was that a group similar to the Combined Raw Materials Board of World War II would be set up to make sure that the raw materials of the West went where they were most needed...