Evening star., 1948-06-23
Text Of Hoovers Address at Republican Convention :
By The Associated Press

By The A.seeisisd Press
CONVENTION HALL, Phila-
delphia. June 23.-FollotDing Is
the tert OF the speech By former
President Hoover:
This convention meets again in
a continuing grave crisis. And this
crisis Is deeper than some may think.
Every important Government in
cluding our own has broken its
promises to mankind. Civilization
moves forward only on promises that
are kept. Faith has been hurt; hope
has been diminished; thinking has
been corrupted, and fear has been
spread-all over the world.
The problems which confront US
far transcend partisan action and I
do not proposed to speak in that
sense tonight.
What is done here, what you do
here, will affect the destiny Of our
country beyond any estimation OF
this moment. For you are more than
ever before, the trustees Of q great
cause, the cause for which this party
was founded. the cause Of human
liberty.
Liberty has been defeated in q
score of nations. They have revived
slavery. They have revived mass
guilt. They have revived Govern
ment by hatred, by torture, by exile.
Today the men in the Kremlin hold
in their right hands the threat Of
military aggression against al civil
ization. With their left hands they
work to weaken civilization by bor-
ing from within.
New Situation Created.
These tyrants have created a
situation new in all human expe-
rience. We saved them from Hitler
but they refuse to cooperate with
us in good will or peace on earth.
A powerful nation, dominated by
men without conscience, finds it
useful to have neither peace nor
war in the world.
Whether some of us, who foresaw
that danger and warned of 1t, were
right or wrong, and whatever the
errors Of American craftsmanship
that helped bring it about, We are
today faced with a world situation
IN which there Is little time for
regrets.
The only obstacle to the annihiia-
tion of freedom has been the United
States of America. Only as long as
the United States Is free and strong
will human liberty survive in a world
frustrated and devastated by these
two wars.
1t is in our interest and. above all,
in the interest of liberty throughout
the world, that we aid in giving
strength and unity to the nations Of
Western Europe. 1t is only thus
that We can restore = balance of
power in the world able to resist the
hordes from the Eurasian steppes
who would ruin Western civilization.
We have also the burden OF in
creased armament to assure that no
hostile force will ever reach this
hemisphere.
Economy Must Remain Strong.
With all the good will in our
hearts, our friends abroad should
realize that our economy must not
be exhausted or over-strained by
these burdens, or the last hope of
the world is lost. We should only
be playing Stalin's game, for his
expressed real hope lies in our
economic collapse for which his NTH
columns are busily planning.
Our friends abroad should realize
that We are today certainly straining
our American economy to the ut
most. Warning signals already
clang in our ears. Relief and de-
fense will soon be costing us over
$22 900, 900 900 . year. Our Federal
budget threatens to increase to $780,
000, 600, 900 q year, unless we delay
many plans for internal social and
economic improvement.
Even our present 4O-odd billion
taxes and the export Of materials 80
drain the savings of our people that
in the year 1947 we did not properly
maintain and expand the great tools
of production and distribution upon
which our standard of living de-
pends.
Nor is there any room for more
taxes except by a cut in the stand-
ard of living OF those who do the
Nations work. Some will say that
We can increase corporation taxes.