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...came back to the U.S., was promptly sent touring the Midwest with Al Smith. He also traveled around the country on the campaign train with Herbert Hoover in 1928, when Hoover won, and again in 1932, when Hoover lost. "I will never forget the crowds of silent dead-pan people at the stations that year," he writes. "I know now I was witnessing the start of a peaceful American revolution...
...words (in headlines) rang round the nation. They were in fact the most egregious example of unwarranted optimism that the U.S. had heard since Herbert Hoover said that recovery was just around the corner...
...extreme emphasis on pacifism that we find today is a modern growth in the Society. I doubt if a single eminent early Quaker can be named who consistently condemned all war. Penn, [John] Bright and [Herbert] Hoover are the only three Quakers who have ever held positions of first-rate public responsibility, and none of them found it possible to retain the pacifist dogma...
...extreme emphasis on pacifism that we find today is a modern growth in the Society. I doubt if a single eminent early Quaker can be named who consistently condemned all war. Penn, [John] Bright and [Herbert] Hoover are the only three Quakers who have ever held positions of first-rate public responsibility, and none of them found it possible to retain the pacifist dogma...
...rest they offer no detailed plan for peace, but do try to set forth "principles which will need to be considered if peace is to be built on solid foundations." Some of the Hoover-Gibson principles...