Misc on GR

[Markekohut]

The great artists find and create the great overarching symbols
And forms, we know. Something new learned about the V-2:

for two decades up to WW2, a Senator (Vandenburg of
Michigan) was the leading powerful voice for US Isolationism. 
Four weeks after the Germans invaded Poland he said, " This so-called war
Is nothing but about 25 people and propaganda."

The pressure of that so-called War worked on him." the final turning of his thinking
Came when he stood in London in1944 and listened to German robot bombs
Snarl overhead. " How can there be immunity or isolation, when man can devise
Weapons like that." 

His Senate address after was hailed as near-great; there was bipartisan applause.
All the nations' pundits checked in, some of the most famous, [TRB in New Republic,]
Surprised. 

The Senate ratification of the UN charter shortly after had had journalists expecting
Another League of Nations contentiousness....
But the US was fully international-minded even in Congress now. [ remember the postwar
Riff about the 50's in GR?] 

From: The Crucial Decade--and After 1945-1960 by Eric Goldman.


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