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...first stage of the world revolution, and Herbert Hoover, unlike most conservatives, knew it almost as soon as the revolutionists. He also had a formula for checking it: food. He was so successful that Communists hate no one worse than Hoover, whom they accuse of overthrowing the Hungarian Soviet by withholding rations. But while, as a practical man, Hoover was saving Europe's civilization with U.S. food, as a scholar he was saving Europe's social records...
From General John J. Pershing, Hoover asked 15 history professors and students then serving in various ranks of the A.E.F. He sent them in uniform to the governments whose people he was feeding. They made the right contacts, snooped for archives. They found so many that Hoover was soon shipping them back to the U.S. as ballast in the empty food boats...
Some 15 carloads of material came from Germany alone. Among them: the complete secret minutes of the German Supreme War Council-a gift from President Fritz Ebert. "Ebert, you know, was a radical," says Hoover, "with no interest in the work of his predecessors." Later the German Government asked that the collection be kept secret for 30 years. The Library agreed...
When the Bolsheviks overthrew the liberal Kerensky Government, Kerensky's foreign minister, learned History Professor Paul Miliukov, told Hoover he had hidden tsarist archives in a barn in Finland. "If you can get them," said Miliukov, "you can have them." "Getting them was no trouble at all," says Hoover. "We were feeding Finland at the time...
...Russian Bolsheviks cooperated from the first, allowed Hoover's representatives to remove 25 carloads of material. It includes the minutes of all the big town and district Soviets and comprises the largest soviet archive in the world, not excluding those in the Soviet Union...