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...Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, a Republican, called Herbert Hoover's proposal a "counsel of discouragement, despair and defeat." Democratic Senator Brien McMahon of Connecticut called it "the most monstrous act of appeasement ever suggested in this country...
...agree that the Nazis were a menace to the U.S.; this time there were few Americans, outside of the Communists and fellow travelers, who had any doubts about who the enemy was or that he had to be faced somewhere, some time. In the rainbow shadings of opinion, Herbert Hoover's was closer to the center than some, but those who would cut or shorten U.S. ties overseas recognized a man who was generally on their side, and they exulted at his words...
...Kenneth Wherry, G.O.P. floor leader in the Senate. "I agree with many of the general principles he states," said Ohio's Bob Taft, now a prime molder of G.O.P. foreign policy in the Senate. Indiana's 100% Isolationist Homer Capehart rejoiced: "I agree with Mr. Hoover 100%." "The people are with him," proclaimed Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune. (Its enthusiasm barely exceeded that of the Communist Party's Daily Worker, which appreciatively turned over its big headline type to Hoover's speech...
...isolationism rose particularly against Herbert Hoover for suggesting that the U.S. might base its defense of the free world on the Western Hemisphere (see U.S. AFFAIRS). The Manchester Guardian asked: "Where does this leave us poor Europeans?" London's Daily Telegraph lamented: "Such a policy . . . would mean that [Western Europe] was at the mercy of the Red army. [It] would result in America becoming . . . an isolated and ultimately indefensible free society...
Paris' Le Monde angrily observed that Frenchmen were being asked to accept austerity and sacrifice while being placed outside "the strategic periphery." It would be better, said Le Monde in effect, for France to be neutral. Cried Norway's Dagbladet: "Herbert Hoover . . . neo-isolationism . . . means that Russia has got a new weapon in the cold war." The Kremlin evidently thought it had something, indeed. Moscow's Pravda printed the full text of Hoover's statement, though it had not even summarized Harry Truman's national emergency address. The Soviet press was apparently trying to prove...