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...Herbert Hoover made him Chief of Staff in 1930; Franklin Roosevelt kept him on for an extra year-the first Chief of Staff to serve more than the usual four-year tour of duty. In 1935, Manuel Quezon invited him to reorganize the Philippine Army; in 1941, after retirement from the U.S. Army, he was recalled to head American-Filipino forces in the Far East. He commanded the forces on Bataan until ordered to Australia. Lukewarm toward air power before War II, he changed his mind quick to work hand in glove with his air chief, Lieut. General George...
...Pacific." He was also a fanatically successful booster of New York and of the U.S., was famed for his war-bond sales and social services. Stuck in London when War I broke out, he was the man who got 60,000 stranded Americans home from Europe, and started Herbert Hoover along a similar humanitarian road by putting him in charge of lost luggage...
...Chief J. Edgar Hoover reported for the year ending last June...
Last week Herbert Hoover put the question concretely. "The U.S., Russia and Britain have agreed to collaborate in building self-government and freedom in the world. It would seem that we could use our good offices to secure some way out of the impasse for Finland. The way this problem is handled will be a profound indication of the future of collaboration...
...With disarming modesty, Author Adler confesses that only recently has he begun to think about war and peace at all. But this is only mock modesty, the grandmother's cap which Adler wears to distract attention from his sharp eyes and wolf's teeth. Walter Lippmann, Herbert Hoover, Hugh Gibson, Sumner Welles, the editors of the New York Times and the Popes of Rome are a few of the more important thinkers on war and peace who feel the crunch of the Adler incisors...