Word: hooverness
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...with the umbrella was a piker. Fifteen million Czechs, he felt, was not too great a price to pay for "peace for our time." Take Herbert Hoover now, on the other hand, he conceives things on a far more grandiose scale. In order to buy a small but unknown number of years of uneasy peace for the Americas, he is perfectly willing to let all other peoples of the world disappear into abject slavery behind the Iron Curtain...
Even as General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower flew off to Paris to organize the North Atlantic Treaty forces (see INTERNATIONAL), the nation echoed with doubts about the whole European enterprise. The idea of U.S. military involvement on the Continent had been attacked by Herbert Hoover. The scope of that involvement was scrutinized even more rigorously last week by Ohio's Taft. The debate ranged over questions of effectiveness, practicality and logic...
...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...
...Liberal Union said it had recently passed a resolution favoring Secretary of State Acheson's policy of arms shipments and other aids to Europe. The H.L.U. amplified this resolution to brand Hoover and Taft as "dangerous and inimical to the nation's welfare...
...less definite statement, the Young Republicans asserted that the Taft-Hoover proposals are "sincere, military in nature, and not isolationist...