A HOOVER INTERROGATORY.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1929, Page 2

A HOOVER INTERROGATORY.

will he the effect' of Air Hoover’s wide experience of mankind upon liis attitude to world affairs? ” asks Air A. G. Gardiner in the “Star.” “ It is suggested that it will only intensify his Americanism and arm it with the knowledge of where and how to strike in the struggle 'for industrial pre-eminence in the world. There is ground for this fear in the emphasis ho lays on ‘prosperity’ and on the grow, ing need of America to maintain that prosperity by external trade. And his brusque references when in office to the British restrictions in regard to rubber warned us not to look lor any excessive friendliness to this country. All this is true, hut if I may trust the impression I 'formed of this dour and reticent man. there is a deeper seam in his character than that which he shows on the surface. Me is by his Quaker upbringing, and still more by his terrific experiences in Kiirope, an intense 100 of the institution of war. lie knows that that institution can only he overthrown by a world organised 'for peace,

and it is as an organiser that he has arrived at the most powerful position in the world to-day. I misread him greatly if, now that he has achieved power, he does not set himself to canalise the world into the paths of peace. Wilson had the vision. Hoover has precisely that practical genius which can give the vision shape and actuality.”