Harry and Arthur : Truman, Vandenberg, and the partnership that created the free world /

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With Franklin Roosevelt's death in April of 1945, Vice President Harry Truman and Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, the Republican leader on foreign policy, inherited a world in turmoil. With Europe flattened and the Soviets emerging as America's new adversary, Truman and Vandenberg built a tight pa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haas, Lawrence J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Temas:
Truman, Harry S., > 1884-1972.
Vandenberg, Arthur H. > (Arthur Hendrick), > 1884-1951.
Truman, Harry S., > 1884-1972
Vandenberg, Arthur H. > (Arthur Hendrick), > 1884-1951
1945-1953
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Diplomatic relations
United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1953.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > 1945-1953.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Harry and Arthur
  • Part I.A victory against war itself
  • President Wilson tried to work out a way
  • We may perfect this charter of peace and justice
  • As dumb as they come
  • Sensible machinery for the settlement of disputes
  • America wins!
  • A solid structure upon which we can build
  • Part II. To support free peoples
  • What is Russia up to now?
  • The Russians are trying to chisel away a little here, a little there
  • Halfbright
  • Vandenberg expressed his complete agreement with me
  • The president's messages faces facts
  • The administration made a colossal blunder in ignoring the UN
  • Part III. The world situation is very serious
  • Desperate men are liable to destroy the structure of their society
  • I have no illusions about this so-called Marshall Plan
  • The perils of hunger and cold in Europe
  • The commies will be completely back in the saddle
  • A problem which they themselves must meet
  • A welcome beacon in the world's dark night
  • Part IV. An attack against them all
  • Their hope must lie in this new world of ours
  • A sound answer to several critical necessities
  • Nothing will be done without consultation with you
  • Politics shall stop at the water's edge
  • The most sensible, powerful, practicable, and economical step
  • The Senate has lost a pillar of strength
  • Epilogue.

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