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Thriller-Diller. Such was the Hollywood thriller which startled newspaper readers this week. J. Edgar Hoover, Chief of the FBI, solemnly declared that the invaders had buried enough explosives on the beaches to conduct a two-year campaign of destruction. The invaders had not lasted long-nor done any reported damage. Before they had time to start their operations, they had been captured in what the FBI chief indicated was a brilliant, decisive stroke. Six had been seized within ten days; the other two, four days later in Chicago...
...Herbert Hoover signed a manifesto in August 1941, which said: "Freedom in America does not depend on the outcome of struggles for material power between other nations...
Said Herbert Hoover fortnight ago: "The American people must begin to think of the problems of peace. And it must think in a far larger frame than ever before." In a thoughtful, 295-page book, The Problems of Lasting Peace (Doubleday Doran; $2), Hoover and veteran Diplomat Hugh Gibson provide a sense-making frame to help clarify post-war thinking...
...them, seven "dynamic forces" spell war or peace. They hold that evil men merely light the fuses for civilization's great explosions; the explosive makings are already there. These seven forces, say Messrs. Hoover & Gibson, will be at the coming peace table: "Ideological, economic, nationalistic, imperialistic, and militaristic pressures, and the witches of fear, hate and revenge will participate in every discussion. But on the other hand, the prayers of a stricken world for a lasting peace will echo through those halls. The seven dynamic forces have survived every crisis. They will be with us again. We know...
...Alltime kudos champion is probably Herbert Hoover (52). Noting that Franklin Roosevelt has only half as many, Epler observes: "The opposition to Roosevelt, common among the wealthy, may account in part for his fewer awards...