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...bitter days of early 1933, when Hoover left the White House, Stimson, then Secretary of State, was one of the members of the outgoing Cabinet who went to consult with the incoming President and Secretary of State. He remained on good terms with Cordell Hull thereafter. There was never any real break in U.S. foreign policy from Stimson's regime to Hull's regime, and it was ultimately Stimson's support of Roosevelt's foreign policy that drew him back into the Cabinet...
...must refuse to be duped, as other democracies were duped, by German lies. The people who claim that the attack on Russia has changed the nature of the war are people who have opposed effective aid against aggression even before the war was "changed"-Hoover, Landon, Lindbergh...
Other signers: Herbert Hoover; Felix Muskett Morley, for three years a League of Nations employe, until recently editor of the Washington Post, now president of Haverford College; Joshua Reuben Clark, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to Mexico, and now, in effect, business manager of Mormon affairs with vast powers throughout the church's Rocky Mountain territory and national holdings; Alfred Mossman London; Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Hoover's Interior Secretary, president of Stanford University; Hoover's Minister to Canada, Hanford MacNider of Iowa; Hoover's Ambassador to Italy, Henry Prather Fletcher; Robert Maynard Hutchins, precocious president...
FORTUNE'S appraisal is based on the assumption, unacceptable to isolationists, that the U.S. is already engaged in an inescapable struggle. Herbert Hoover, Alfred Landon, Burton Wheeler, John L. Lewis, Charles Lindbergh and many a lesser citizen in their several ways question or deny that assumption...
Task. Readers who do not believe in FORTUNE'S basic assumption will find its arguments less convincing than its picture of the facts. To people who believe like Herbert Hoover ("Freedom in America does not depend on the outcome of struggles for material power between other nations."), the tasks in which FORTUNE'S editors say the U.S. is failing are themselves unnecessary. Unpredictable developments in the war may reduce the urgency on which the editors insist-the Germans and the Russians may cancel each other out more than they believe possible; the turns and twists of modern...