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Professor Hoover's Conversion
...with the greatest enjoyment that I read, in TIME, Sept. 22, the letter on "Vicarious Victory" [suggesting by sardonic implication that the U.S. was not taking an active enough part in the war] from Glenn E. Hoover of Mills College. Ten years ago, when I was a student in Mr. Hoover's economics class, the professor was the most uncompromising of anti-militarists. The infallible formula for peace, according to him, was simply disarmament. It was the military establishments, he argued, who were primarily responsible for war and its attendant economic evils: the Army and Navy taught...
Stanford. Mildly isolationist last year, the Daily last week blasted Alumnus Herbert Hoover's faculty poll on foreign policy (see below), declared: "We have picked our side of the fence. We think the menace can best be eradicated by following the policies of the present Administration...
...Herbert Hoover turned pollster last week. Irked because 176 facultymen at his alma mater, Stanford University, had signed a manifesto demanding a "more dynamic defense" against totalitarianism, Mr. Hoover personally sent a questionnaire to Stanford's 800 teachers. To Mr. Hoover, "more dynamic defense" meant "military action." His conclusion, released to the interventionist Stanford Daily (see above) : 60% of the faculty disagreed with the signers of the manifesto...
...Sample Hoover question: "Do you think we should carry munitions to England in American-flag ships ?" Of the faculty in general, 47% voted Yes; of the manifesto signers, 73%. Other questions: Should the U.S. send an army to the European continent? Fight Japan if she refused to get out of China? The 176 signers and non-signers alike voted overwhelmingly...