Word: hooverness
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...mention Hoover by name as he condemned any plan for "an impregnable defense, a China Wall, a Maginot Line, a Rock of Gibraltar, an Atlantic and Pacific moat . . . The whole world can be confident that the U.S. will not at a moment of supreme danger shed allies who are endangered...
...Washington, where its outcome would ultimately be decided, the great debate was barely under way. Ohio's Robert Taft planted his flag close to Herbert Hoover's, said the nation should limit itself to an army of 1,500,000 because it wouldn't be able to afford more, and added unhelpfully: "I have no great confidence" in the judgment of our military leaders in the Pentagon...
Pause & Pass On. President Truman stepped briefly but emphatically into the debate at his weekly press conference. The Hoover proposals were nothing else but isolationism, said the President, and the nation was not going back to it. Added Dean Acheson: "To abandon our allies would gratify the Kremlin. To do so would be appeasement on a gigantic scale." The President and his State Department seemed to be taking their cue from a Harvard law professor who, having presented arguments against his own conclusions in a legal case, remarked: "These considerations give me pause, but having paused, I pass on." Massachusetts...
...days before anybody knew what John Foster Dulles was going to say, Washington's pundits were debating another point: for whom was he talking? A State Department spokesman purposefully implied that State had nominated Republican Adviser Dulles to answer Republican ex-President Hoover. G.O.P. Chairman Guy Gabrielson said tartly that Dulles wasn't speaking for any Republicans that Gabrielson knew. Dulles himself got off a wire to Hoover saying that he did not intend to do battle with Hoover, though they might disagree in spots. Then he stepped before the microphones...
...opportunity to determine whether "the people of Europe who love freedom as we do have the will and the stamina to make real defense possible," the Committee said. Thus, it contended, the real question of the moment does not involve the risks feared by backers of former President Herbert Hoover and Senator Robert A. Taft (R.-Ohio...