The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-30
War Secrets Being
 Revealed In Which
 Hoover Played Part
President Had Opposed Creation of Separate American Expedifonary Force and Our Soldiers to Join With Those of France and England

ed MT Hoover for this post but the entire idea was rejected.
 The White House had no com ment. However 1t was understood that later MT Hoover supported General Pershing's view of Q uni- fled army. He prepared the mem orandum at the request of Colonel House and 1t was part of many pre- liminary discussions. it is under stood.
 MT Hoover was head of the Bell gian relief organization at the time. It is said here he regarded the suggestion for infiltering Amer ican soldiers as a temporary meas ure pending creation of a consoli- dtaed expeditionary force. Though the idea was found infeasible the same result was achieved during the early months of American par ticipation when various regiments were infiItered into the French army, it was said here.
 one republican, high in the party organization, said that while the idea of infiltration was displeasing to the American people, Mir Hoov- CT was seeking only to make Amer ican participation as effective as possible.
 The book. just published by Dodd Mead and Company, answers many criticisms set forth in General Pershing's memoirs as to the con- duct of the war at Washington. | Based on war documents of | Baker, the account of Palmer, l former war correspondent and of- | ficer of the A. F. F., reveals that Pershing was Loyalty supported in the execution of the war though
 Baker differed with him on numer- ous fundamental policies. Pershing
 was represented as insisting on 100 American divisions in France even
 after Foch had told Baker that he could win the war with 40. His in- sistence on unconditional surrender of the Germans was waved aside I by Wilson and Baker. On the eve of the Armistice, after Austria had
 surrendered, Ludendorff had re-
 signed and the Kaiser had fled
 from Berlin to Spa, Pershing was
 urgently cabling Washington de-
 manding to know why his request | for more men could not '.be given
 the consideration its importance
 deserves" Pershing at that time
 was preparing for another year of
 fighting, Palmer says.
 "In the course of reading stacks
 of war documents, have grad
 ually come to the conviction that
 by the summer of 1918 the home
 effort, was better organized than
 that in Europe" Palmer says. l Before war was declared Baker
 had told the general staff that it
 was not preparing for a large
 enough army and he said 1t would
 be raised by a draft and gave or
 ders for preparation of draft
 plan. ,s.s
 Answering criticism that the ad-
 ministration was unprepared for
 war. documents are produced to
 show that Baker urged q prepared
 ness policy on President Wilson a
 year before war was declared {;
 trice resisted efforts of President Wilson to stop the war college from
 preparing war plans; urged general extension of the Plattsburg officers
 training camp idea; fought off at-
 temps to curb the power of the
 general stan; spent billion dol- lars on emergency supplies with out waiting for congress to appro-
 priate money though he risked violation of a criminal statute to
 do so; and finally sent out millions
 of draft forms. to 10000 sheriffs
 while waiting for congress to pass the draft act.