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What we've got to present must be more than national pride. If we are to do it, we must drop the holier-than-thou attitude both of Hoover in his "American Crusade" and of the Luce-thinking interventionists who envision an Anglo-American world. Let's not be prevented by hatreds and chauvinism from making this war the really allembracing endeavour that it is. Let's recognize that we are one nation of many, and to attain our ends we must make concessions to the interests of others...
Lieut. Robert Montgomery, U.S.N.R., walked into the lobby of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, encountered a force of pen-waving ladies with autograph books. Unmolested, unnoticed was a bystander, Herbert Hoover...
Massachusetts' own Joe Martin several weeks ago made an attempt to come to the aid of the Captains of Industry without entirely ignoring the party. Suggesting, among other things, substituting Herbert Hoover for Leon Henderson to play quarterback at price administration should calm the nerves of Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors. Mr. Wilson's fears for "the prerogatives of management" may be regarded as mildly symbolic. In fact, there is much evidence to show that Big Business has not been enthusiastically supporting the victory production campaign. This statement might also be regarded as mild. Whether or not Martin...
...being taken up. But industry is still far from a smiling partner to the deal. There is no reason why the profits of war industry should be investigated twenty years from now. And there are certainly many reasons to show that price administration needs a sterner commander than Herbert Hoover...
Last week, of all times, sincere, stubborn, tactless Herbert Hoover, of all people, published a book (America's First Crusade; Scribner; $1.25). Of all books, it was the most untimely. It told for the umpteenth bitter time how Britain-now a life-or-death ally of the U.S.-and France cheated the U.S. out of its just deserts at the peace conference of Versailles...