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Rallying Point. The attacker was ex-President Herbert Hoover. Unlike Dulles, he loaded a qualified endorsement of ERP with objections that would destroy the plan piecemeal...
...questioned the size of the appropriation. In the first 15 months, said Hoover, U.S. grants for food and other goods "essential to maintain life" should not exceed $3 billion, should include relief for China, Korea and Japan as well as Europe. Steel and capital goods should be shipped only on a straight loan basis. No money should be given for purchases in other nations; Latin American nations, for instance, should grant their own credits to Europe...
...Then Hoover struck right at the heart of the plan. He would limit ERP strictly to a 15-months proposition. Said he: "Even a moral commitment to a four-year program is unwise...
Critical professorial eyes, including those of John M. Gaus, professor of Government, will be turned on federal agricultural activities this week as a committee under Herbert Hoover investigates various federal executive branches...
...lights gave him a wire-recorder (to record his balladry); the other in his native Galesburg, Ill., where Knox College gave him a cake and Sandburg gave an address. The Lincoln man cleared up a point about himself: "My father was . . . a Republican. I voted for Eugene Debs and Hoover, and if Eisenhower is nominated will vote for him. I am an independent or maybe a mugwump...