Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-29
THE TRUTH ABOUT HOOVER. BY Herbert
Corey. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co.


from cub-reporting days on to the high dignity
of Or SIS councils in matters Of state, of world
state.
So, here Herbert Corey as matter Of habit
set himself to running down the special line
of news that, of late has gathered about the
President Of the United States, in vicious
and personal malignance of accusation.
As a workman in news would do, this way
wise investigator first picked up the floating
bits of rumor asset tion diatribe, abuse. Some
of these were more than mere bits or so they
sc med. ordered lines of statement instead.
No matter. One and all, M. Corey straight
ened them out, laid them side by side and
then commenced the arduous business OF 1ol-
lowing each out to its original and authentic
source In this process every single one OF
these accusations, such, fell awIy from any
relation whatever to the truth of that when
it assumed to represent in full
More, as the study expanded on other lines,
lines identified with current eTents In their
de p and possibly dsast Gus significance, Mr..
Corey took into close account the quality Of
Herbert Hoover's leadership in na,iona! mat
tiers and international problems. The quality
of the President, the caliber Of the man him.
self are here demonstrated to be such as to
warrant a support which, as head of the Ma
ton, Mr.. Hoover has not had in creditable
measure to the people whom he repIes nts with
SO much of ability, and courage much Of
wor,d-sight and provision.
Difficult for truth to ovei take lie but
here is running chance to do that very thing.
A chance, besides, under the leadership of Mr..
Corey. to gather up in some measure the
capacity Of the President for organization for
administration, for carrying abreast more
than one vast enterprise whose objective Is the
security and advantage Of the people he is now
representing.
Having overtaken vindictive and revengeful
calumny. Mr.. Corey gives himself, and readers,
the privilege of following Mr.. Hoover into a
statesmanly seizure of the United States, beset
by danger and threatened with calamity reach
ing into every quarter, menacing industry.
finance society itself. To study this man.
shaping himself to a task, unparalleled in the
official life Of any President Of this country.
to watch him as he applied his business train
Ing to a problem largely of business character,
to see the unpretentious good sense with which
he summoned expert training from every quar-
ter and from both parties alike to weigh with
him momentous matters in hand, to decide
with him the sagacity Of this move that one.
know of no more Illuminating way TO the
ofh .ia career Of our President than this search
ing book than this fair and conservative story
by Herbert Corey, The Truth About Hoover"
THE TRUTH ABOUT PREPARATIONS AND
WAR DEBTS. BY David Lloyd George.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co.
A IL Europe is At present simultaneously
~ vocal with The war debts cannot be paid.
War reparations cannot be made" The press,
the radio, visiting honorab!es and authorities
steadily and vehemently exhorting America
to this effect Budgeting war debts and the
general depression together voice this in elab-
crate fiscal reckonings and profound financial
ba1ancingS declares the end Of the world to
be at hand II payment Of the debt is any
where in the foreground Of events
And here is David Lloyd George saying the
same thing. Saying it. however, with more
fire and JUNCTION, with more picture to the per-
Torrance than mere flnancers and bookkeep-
ers could be expected to command. In scope
quite inclusive. in point sharp and right to the
mark, with definition full and clear, Mr.. Lloyd
George sets out the truth" Now persuasive,
now positive and demanding, this waesman
of England gives a laundering lesson in inter-
national finance that is clearly safe and
sound as it Is also and in less financial
connotation, good human stuff for founder
ing world to take.
However people are pesky. Instead Of tax
ing this fine message for it's essence Of good
sense and admirable statesm anshp people are
now busy reminding Mr.. Lloyd George that
just IA years ago he was saying exactly the
opposite thing. THE Central Powers must
pay the cost Of the war" with dire threats
against the personal freedom of that arch
criminal the Kaiser Well that is nothing
Everybody saying that then, almost
everybody. Times change. Only fool never
does change his mind. But and here this
fiery writer overreaches little, the truth" is
not to be arrived at. not often in circum-
stances Of such weight and moment And in
this particular least of all. Merely
characteristic gesture of buoyant self-trust
which has nothing to do in the way of scaling
off from the true substance and from the states
manly intent Of this author as he reviews the
changes of thought and purpose that have
overtaken the thinking world since the victory
the so-cAlled victory, of the World War.
TENNIS ORIGINS AND MYSTERIES By
Malcolm D. Whitman. Historical bibliogra-
ply by Robert w. Henderson. introduce
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