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Most of the comments I have read on Hoover's message of despair have argued the practical question of whether or not we would benefit directly by trying to stop the barbarians before the rest of the world is theirs . . . Does not the fate of 225 million fellow human beings also deserve some consideration . . . especially when these same human beings are our blood brothers who share our cultural heritage, our ideals, and our fierce love of freedom...
...Herbert Hoover's is the voice of wisdom and moral courage...
...thing TIME chooses to call "isolationism," defined clearly by Herbert Hoover, is the will of the people. TIME and all others who would see this nation bled white in "little" wars throughout the world will soon realize this...
...Since when has America's symbol been Mr. Hoover's running rabbitinstead of the mighty eagle...
There were other voices urging similar courses. But essentially, it was a week for answering Herbert Hoover, Robert Taft and the other pleaders for a defensive foreign policythe policy of retreat to what Hoover called a Western Gibraltar. Arizona's apple-cheeked Ernest McFarland, rising to his first test as a majority leader of the new Senate, gave the debate free rein: "It is this clash of honest judgment and conviction . . . which results in sounder policy," he said...