Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current League of Nations resolution censuring Japan's conduct in Manchuria, and proposing non-recognition censuring Japan's conduct in Manchuria, and proposing non-recognition of Manchukuo comes as a relief to all who questioned the results of the Hoover-Stimson declaration. The rapid decision of our state department to refuse recognition to a state created in violation of the Kellogg pact will, apparently, be vindicated by the League...
Fortunately, the League assembly shows every indication of echoing the note of non-recognition independently sounded by Mr. Hoover and Mr. Stimson. That this will remove us from an embarrassing and anomalous situation is in no real sense creditable to our foreign policy. The significant feature of the entire proceeding is the proof we have given of international bad manners which, without the League support, might have had serious consequences...
...while in South America there has been continual friction. At the present moment Bolivia and Paraguay are in opposite trenches, Peru and Colombia began offensive operations, yesterday. All these minor wars, plus the Big Blow of 1914-1918, are well within the twenty years of progress mentioned by President Hoover...
...navy reductions. What hope for peace while a revengeful Germany, a belligerent Italy, a suspicious France, an aggressive Japan, and a hated Russia prepare for conflict? The world outlook is certainly dark Yet, gloomy as it is, we cannot evade it by such ostrich-like attitudes as President Hoover's. There is no better prelude to war than a false sense of security. If there is any "profound hope for the future," it will never be realized until we can face the international situation more realistically than this...
Speaking in New York Monday night, President Hoover delivered these words in the course of his address: "When we compare the attitude of nations toward each other twenty years ago with that of today, we can say that there has developed both the spirit and the method of cooperation in the prevention of war which gives profound hope for the future." It has long been a mystery where President Hoover derived his never-failing optimism. But the above dictum presents a riddle surpassing anything heretofore. If there were much evidence that international feeling had undergone any considerable change...