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...Secretary General Trygve Lie, admitting that the U.N. was not working too well, declared that if Hoover's proposal were carried out, the U.N. would "no longer be what it was meant to be." Sumner Welles and other officers...
Against the Red Tide. Then he got around to the U.S. v. Russia. He had been against recognition of Russia when he was President, and he was still against it. This is not one world, said Hoover, but two worlds, dividing into a pitiless, atheistic community on the one hand, on the other, a community which still believes "in God, free nations, human dignity and peace...
...Said Hoover: "What this world needs today is a definite, concrete mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism . . . The United States needs to know who are with us." He made this proposal: "The United Nations should be reorganized without the Communist nations in it. If that is impractical, then a definite New United Front should be organized of those peoples who disavow Communism . . . All this may give pain to some people. But by their cries ye shall know them...
American Association for the United Nations thought the suggestion was "shocking in its implication," and "might end the last opportunity for an agreement that would prevent a third World War." Eleanor Roosevelt, even-voiced mistress of the deliberate non sequitur, said: "Mr. Hoover's statement seemed a little odd, considering the fact that he is a Quaker. This seemed an action somewhat marching toward...
Harry Truman, who listened to Hoover's speech on the radio, had a different first reaction: he telephoned Hoover to congratulate him. Next day the White House explained that the President only meant to applaud the ex-President's call for "mobilization of the moral forces of the world...