Word: gibraltarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prepare for War. This was not isolationism, Taft said, nor was that the label for Hoover's doctrine of Gibraltar-ism (TIME, Jan. 1). "It seems to me that our battle against Communism is in fact a worldwide battle and must be fought on the world stage . . . [but] our first consideration must be defense of America." Here is how he would wage the battle...
Across the U.S., men & women grappled with the same questions. Their search for an answer had set off a great debate, which filled the air waves and packed the letters-to-the-editor columns. Herbert Hoover had touched it off with his Gibraltarism speech (TIME, Jan. 1), in which he said that Europe must first build its own "sure dam against the Red flood" before the U.S. gave it any more aid, and argued that Europe was not vital anyway to defending the Gibraltar of the Western Hemisphere. It was not alone the size of the match that 76-year...
...mention Hoover by name as he condemned any plan for "an impregnable defense, a China Wall, a Maginot Line, a Rock of Gibraltar, an Atlantic and Pacific moat . . . The whole world can be confident that the U.S. will not at a moment of supreme danger shed allies who are endangered...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, in a debate yesterday with attorney Frederick Ayer, Jr. '37 at the Arlington Street Church, strongly opposed the "Gibraltar" foreign policy of Herbert Hoover, stressing the importance of an American-sponsored European rearmament...
Watchful Waiting. The U.S., said 76-year-old Herbert Hoover in a radio speech to the nation, should, in effect, be prepared to abandon Asia and Europe to Communism, and to build the Western Hemisphere into "the Gibraltar of civilization." It should cut its world commitments down to a cordon of ocean bases-Formosa, the Philippines and Japan in the Pacific, and Britain, "if she wishes to cooperate," in the Atlantic...