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...Dealers called the acceptance speech the greatest political failure in history, announced that Harold Ickes would answer, began talking up Ambassador Bullitt's Philadelphia address before Wendell Willkie had finished his talk. Elsewhere the speech was deemed moderately good: to the Louisville Courier-Journal, too general; to Herbert Hoover, a strong speech for a strong people; to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, fine; to the Baltimore Sun, thoughtful; the Chicago Daily News (which last week dropped the name of its owner, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox from its masthead called it a courageous speech and came out for Willkie...
...Europe behind the British blockade was clouded with contradictions. Authoritative reports boiled down to this: there was probably food enough to feed the continent meagrely through the winter, if Germany would or could distribute it. Cold probability was that the victims of the Nazis faced famine. Fortnight ago, Herbert Hoover proposed that the British lift their blockade to let ships from the U. S. pass through with supplies for Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland. According to Mr. Hoover, his proposal was put up to the British Government by Hugh Gibson, the London representative of the European Food Distribution Commission...
Great were the pressures upon the President, the State Department, Great Britain to put humanity first, the fate of the last great European democracy second. The American Friends [Quaker] Service Committee (Eleanor Roosevelt's favorite charity), the Commission for Polish Relief, Inc., Herbert Hoover pleaded for humanity. Most influential of these voices belonged to Herbert Hoover, who during and after World War I distributed $5,234,028,208* worth of relief to Europe. Mr. Hoover announced that his European Food Distribution Commission had asked Great Britain and Germany to consent to U. S. aid. Said he: "There...
Agonizing, clear to the U. S. people was the dilemma. Relief to occupied Europe, even under the strict U. S. supervision which Herbert Hoover planned, would help to preserve Europe under Hitler and in effect subsidize his conquests. If Great Britain falls, the problem will only be compounded. Then Mr. Cudahy will not have to "present the reality of dealing with force as the only power." The reality will be pictures of bloated babies, of hungry women, and of Adolf Hitler, expecting to fatten one way or another on the largess of the U. S. people...
Died. John Raymond McCarl, 60, first U. S. Comptroller General (1921-36); of a heart attack; in his Washington law office. Softspoken, florid Comptroller McCarl took his job very seriously. "Watchdog of the Treasury" during his 15-year term, he annoyed the administrations of Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt II by refusing to O. K. checks for expenditures not authorized by Congress. Sample McCarlism: refusal to pay $1.50 for a Government employe's lunch because "there is nowhere in Virginia where one can buy a lunch worth...