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...Well Done." The night was quiet, like the quiet of the night before the Fourth of July. In Atlanta there were more people in the churches than at the Atlanta v. Little Rock ball game. There was more noise in one six-run inning for the home team than there was in all the rest of the town...
...conference, foreshadowed the patterns of the world organization. A 14-nation executive committee included the Big Three, France and China, lesser members tied more or less to the U.S. (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), Russia (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), and Britain (Australia, Canada. New Zealand). Everyone saw that on the rock-bottom security issues of the future, virtually every small power would be tied to one of the Big Three. But on minor and intermediate issues, the smaller powers kept their independence...
That Arthur Vandenberg, once a rock-ribbed isolationist, should thus become a man whose actions and opinions could do so much to shape the peace of the world was a sizable fact. He could have become the Henry Cabot Lodge of 1945, but he did not. Like the U.S., he had learned the hard way: the deadly march of worldwide war had shown him what was wrong with isolationism. It had not been a sudden change: like the U.S., he had come a long, slow way since...
...rush, he never lost his ingrained concern for the welfare of his troops. When two types of Arctic boot were sent to Alaska, he put a boot of one type on his right foot, the other on his left, and went for long hikes in rock and ice to see for himself which was better for the men. When two kinds of sleeping bags were ready for issue, he tried each for a night outdoors, in 60-below-zero weather...
...more of a sight to the doughboys was the fabulous Adlerhorst (Eagle's Nest), Hitler's 20th-century eyrie on a peak west of Bad Nauheim. The rock-hewn retreat, served by three miles of subterranean corridors, sported 1,000 air-conditioned rooms with hidden exposures of the rustic scene below...