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With his habitual air of grumpy wisdom, Herbert Hoover last week summoned up a ghost: the ghost of Fisher Ames (1758-1808). The only living ex-President was making a speech to warn the U.S. against entry into the war. To show how wrought-up earlier interventionists had been, he quoted some of Ames's sentences on Napoleon which sounded exactly like Walter Lippmann's sentences on Hitler. Said Ames: "If Bonaparte prevails [in Europe], we will be his vassals. . . . Britain fights our battles. . . . One single hope of security is the British Navy. ... If Russia is disarmed...
Fisher Ames was the Herbert Hoover of his day-except in foreign policy. A great New England Federalist, in a time when the Federalists were down & out, "a man of singularly pure and unselfish character," Fisher Ames was one of those stiff U.S. statesmen, like Hoover, who are respected without being popular, who are admired-by people who vote for somebody else; and who are considered wise-by people who wish they had time to discuss his ideas...
...GLENN E. HOOVER...
...President was less than all-knowing, all-wise and beneficent. Other Washington newsmen were conscious of his fallibility. But the White House gang who saw him oftenest usually stood up for him, until last week when they were madder than they had been since the days of the Hoover Administration. No one thing had made them sore. Their anger had built up for some time...
Full of the Philippine problem, of Japan and the Far East relations of the U.S.. he was called home by Herbert Hoover to be Secretary of State. From the State Department, he came time after time on to the international stage as a vigorous man of peace in a day when a great war was already brewing. He headed the U.S. delegation to the London Naval Conference and was chairman of another disarmament conference committee that went to Geneva two years later, had its plans knocked into a cocked hat when Germany withdrew. Between times he suggested U.S. collaboration...