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Handles. In Taylorville, Ill., Florence Duck married Paul Drake. In Greenville, Tex., the H. B. Ducks named their new son Donald. Near Red Wing, Minn., the towboat Herbert Hoover pulled the Franklin D. Roosevelt off the rocks. In Omaha, joke-weary Bovio Palucca asked court permission to change his last name to Parke. In Manhattan, Alfred Papa became a papa...
Ames's fear of Napoleon was wrong, said Mr. Hoover last week, and so were modern interventionists. Hitler will be defeated, as was Napoleon, not by the Russian winter but by the hate he has kindled: "The hate of Hitler will be more terrible than the blizzard was to Napoleon." The U.S. should consequently aid Britain, build its own defenses, spread its ideas by its example and not try "to impose the four freedoms upon Europe and Asia...
...thought Jefferson was leading the U.S. down the path to anarchy and despotism followed by the French Revolution. Just as Herbert Hoover fears the influence of collectivist ideas in the New Deal, so did Fisher Ames fear the influence of French revolutionary thinkers in the men around Jefferson. He saw revolutionists everywhere, undermining, raising popular passions, obstructing, subverting and-he feared-eventually revolutionizing the Government. He was as opposed as Herbert Hoover to embargoes and quarantines. We cannot "quarrel our way into their good will," said he. "I hope we shall show . . . that we deem it better policy to feed...
...much that Herbert Hoover said, the ghost of Fisher Ames could have nodded approval. He would certainly have approved Herbert Hoover's Fifth Freedom, Economic Freedom, to be placed beside Franklin Roosevelt's Four: "Freedom for men to choose their own callings, to accumulate property in protection of their children and old age, freedom of private enterprise that does not injure others." He would have approved Hoover's blasts at Stalin and Hitler, as savage as his own thunders against Napoleon and Robespierre...
Like Herbert Hoover, Pundit Lippmann apparently assumed that the war against Hitler is already on the way to being won. Like many another American and Briton, he failed to recognize that the summer of 1941 has shown not the strength but a basic weakness of the alliance against Hitler: for a whole summer while the Nazis were busy fighting Russia, Britain did not have the strength to launch a single attack of importance on Germany...