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Watchful Waiting. The U.S., said 76-year-old Herbert Hoover in a radio speech to the nation, should, in effect, be prepared to abandon Asia and Europe to Communism, and to build the Western Hemisphere into "the Gibraltar of civilization." It should cut its world commitments down to a cordon of ocean bases-Formosa, the Philippines and Japan in the Pacific, and Britain, "if she wishes to cooperate," in the Atlantic...
...Appeasement. Mr. Hoover was convinced that the U.S. should get out of Korea, should stiffen its hold on Formosa and the Philippines and give the Japanese independence and arms for defense. It should cut off Western European allies without another dollar or U.S. soldier until they organize and equip combat divisions "of such large numbers as would erect a sure dam against the Red flood...
Isolationism had become a bad word; most isolationists did not like to be called that. "These policies I have suggested," said Herbert Hoover, "would be no isolationism. Indeed, they are the opposite. They would avoid rash involvement of our military forces in hopeless campaigns. They do not relieve us of working to our utmost . . . We shall not fail in this even if we have to stand alone...
Charlie Ross, a good, painstaking reporter, had won a Pulitzer Prize himself for his 1932 series on "The Country's Plight-What can be done about it?"-a scholarly, thoughtful and fair-minded examination of the Depression and the remedies the Hoover administration was applying. In 1934, Ross went back to St. Louis to boss the P-D's editorial page. But he was too good a reporter to be a brilliant editorial writer; his editorials were long on balance and facts, short on opinion. In 1939 he was back in Washington again as contributing editor...
Arthur A. Ballantine '04, Under Secretary of the Treasury under Hoover, recalls, "there was never any doubt of Franklin Roosevelt's ability to write. When as a holdover Under Secretary of the Treasury, I came to the White House almost every day in the early days of his administration as President, I found that same skill, further developed...