Word: gibson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican who has already contributed some concrete principles to the postwar discussion is Herbert Hoover. This week, in Collier's, Elder Statesman Hoover and Hugh Gibson, his onetime Ambassador to Belgium, completed a series of four notable articles...
Realists Hoover & Gibson-internationalists with reservations-believe that the U.S., however much it favors freedom and democracy, should not attempt to force its ideas on any peoples who are otherwise minded. They do not believe (with an aside to Republican Wendell Willkie) that we now have "one world in the terms of political and social or philosophic and religious outlook...
Thus, they think, the U.S. must deal with governments and social systems as they are. Messrs. Hoover & Gibson favor "cooperation" and "joint action" by all nations, urge some sort of "world institution" to preserve the peace. This is far distant from a world supergovernment, and Mr. Hoover seems glad...
...Peace-and After. Right now, Hoover & Gibson urge, some of the leading United Nations should be selected as "Trustees of Peace," who would, as soon as fighting ends, maintain world order, restore international law and set up the permanent "world institution...
...Hoover & Mr. Gibson do not attempt the presently impossible job of defining their world institution in concrete terms, but they do point out in detail why they believe the League of Nations failed. Presumably, the world institution would be something like the League of Nations-with Hoover & Gibson improvements...