Spring Stirrings

Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg had displayed a suitable reluctance. He had insisted that he did not want his name entered in Nebraska's presidential primary next month. But Raymond A. McConnell Jr., chairman of a bipartisan group which thought the public should have a chance to express itself on all G.O.P. possibilities, had been stubborn.

Last week Vandenberg sent off a last-minute protest. McConnell fired back a flat question: "If you were nominated by the Republican convention, would you accept?" Replied Vandenberg: "I decline to speculate. . . ."

McConnell promptly filed Vandenberg's name, along with those of Dewey, Taft, Stassen, MacArthur, Warren and Speaker Joe Martin. "I suppose this makes you mad as the devil," said a reporter. "Period," said Vandenberg, grinning broadly.

P: Another G.O.P. candidate who found his name entered in Nebraska's free-for-all was California's Governor Earl Warren. Warren was not pleased. He said he did not want to run in "any other state but my own."

P:New York's Thomas E. Dewey, who had holed up at his desk in Albany while his chief rivals crisscrossed the country like bird dogs working a covert, announced a change in tactics. He told his Albany press conference that he was going to give up his vacation and go delegate-hunting himself next month. Friends thought he might try the South, maybe the West too.

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