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Across the U.S., men & women grappled with the same questions. Their search for an answer had set off a great debate, which filled the air waves and packed the letters-to-the-editor columns. Herbert Hoover had touched it off with his Gibraltarism speech (TIME, Jan. 1), in which he said that Europe must first build its own "sure dam against the Red flood" before the U.S. gave it any more aid, and argued that Europe was not vital anyway to defending the Gibraltar of the Western Hemisphere. It was not alone the size of the match that 76-year...
...think Hoover for the first time has had some appeal in Texas," said a newspaper editor. Added a Kansas City newsman: "I've talked to several persons who say Hoover hit the old nail right on the head. But when questioned, they have only the vaguest idea what he said. They only know he stands for something other than what the Administration is supporting." Said an Atlanta salesman: "I wish to God we could follow the Hoover plan, but I know we can't afford to." The New York Herald Tribune, aware that isolationism was not the word...
...York's Senators reported an avalanche of mail in Hoover's favor, but this was unusual; other Congressmen found their mail much more evenly divided. People on both sides of the argument tried to claim Hoover as their own. Actually, what seemed to strike home in Hoover's argument was not that the U.S. should abandon its search for allies, but that its allies must do more to defend themselves...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, in a debate yesterday with attorney Frederick Ayer, Jr. '37 at the Arlington Street Church, strongly opposed the "Gibraltar" foreign policy of Herbert Hoover, stressing the importance of an American-sponsored European rearmament...
...European reaction to the Hoover speech might have been a handy tool for the U.S. State Department. For instance, it could have called the French government's attention to that part of the speech which suggested (correctly) that the European defenses were not being built fast enough. Instead, Washington's answer to the Hoover speech was to justify the rate of European rearmament, thus further encouraging the "go slow" policy of the North Atlantic alliance...