The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-07-28

Germany, but only our ambassador
the Soviet Unionl
Hoover himself told us in Septen
Der, 1910, that Nazi Germany an
Fascist Italy would soon dominat
about so per cent of the worlds poi
ulation."
ut would seem likely that tn
totalitarian domination of German,
and Italy will cover most of tn,
Continent of Europe from Russia t,
the Atlantic and will also includ,
much of the dependencies of these
former European States in Africa
and the East Indies"
Since he omitted TOTO from his cal
culations and since he, as President
showed no zeal in hating Japanese ag
gression in the Far East, we get here
an amazing picture of how his Munich
mind viewed the postwar world. With
complete equanimity he was awarding
most of the world to the fascists
while assuring his listeners that we
would nevertheless be able to main.
tain our free economy" in the Unit
ed States if only we buried our heads
deeply enough in the sand.
Hoover and the Republican Party
In view of his long and consistent
support of the policies that led to
Munich, it is not surprising that
Hoover was among the signers of the
America First Declaration Against
War in August 1941, nor to find him
continuing a rearguard campaign
against the Administration win-the-
war program ever since Americas en-
try into the war.
The pseudo-myth of Hoovers politi-
cal death in 1892 had disarmed many
people and obscured the role he has
continued to play in Republican cir
cles, as the official spokesman for the
reactionary Old Guard.
But Hooverism and scarcity had be-
come almost synonymous terms in the
of the American people. The
American people remembered the
broken promises.-Thus it has been
necessary for Hoover to remain in the
background, and the ex-Presidential
cloak of invisibility made it possible
for Hoover to tour the country and
quietly line up the delegates for ALT
Landon before the Republican conven-
ion of 1885,
Only because of the Old Guards
anxiety to halt the Wilkie drive did it
become necessary for Hoover last year
o metamorphose himself to his more |
form. The Old Guard, be- |
coming panicky over the popularity of |
Villkie, who favored cooperation |
With the Soviet Union, pushed the
Herbert Hoover up to |
he microphone again, hailing him as
he "last Republican president" and
the elder statesman of the Republi-
an Party" In this way, they sought
0 make it clear that Willkie did not
peak for the dominant group in the
republican Party and to tighten their
old over wavering Republicans who
yere becoming fed up with the Old
iuard's defeatist course.
Despite his re-emergence. Hoover
as sought to conceal his present ac-
lvities. Quietly and unobtrusively,
Iooyer has been managing Dewey's
ampaign from his suite at the Wal
in New York City vri+h
OCCASIONAL trips to Pawling, New
ork, where Dewey and Hugh Gibson
lowers close friend, maintain then
ountry estates.
Hoover's enthusiasm for Dewey viii.
e understood when it is recalled that
the 1910 Republican Convention
overnor Dewey, who even then en-
'rtained White House hopes, had de-
AIRED:
Insofar as the present Admins
tration has adhered to the policies ,
of its predecessors, it has met with T
the general approval of the Ameri- t
can people. But it has occasionally |
strayed from the path. A conspic-
.uous and unfortunate departure was I
the recognition by the New Deal of {
Soviet Russia. At last | think 4
our Administration will stop trying c
to make deals with Russia. We T
need no such partnership" d
The wide support in their own ranks t
President Roosevelt's win-the-war S
'licies has made it necessary for the v
epublican machine to play down this L
de of Dewey. For the same reason t
cry effort has been made to conceal a
e real role of Hoover as Dewey's t
ain hacker. But more than a year n
20, April Z, 1913, Hearst's Interna- p
onal News Service carried this re-
,rt: o
Former President Hoover in il
formed friends in Washington he Il
would be entirely satisfied with the [
of Governor Thomas E. c.
Dewey as the Republican candi- n
date"
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