PRESIDENT HOOVER

Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1930, Page 5

PRESIDENT HOOVER

THE? WORLD UNREST. THE URGE OF PEACE. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this clay at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 0. At Boston, President Hoover addressing the American Legion Convention, stated :—“Even to-day half of the population, of our globe is in a state of great unrest or revolution. Real peace requires more tlian documents, We sign in the- hope of terminating wars. Peace requires unremitting courageous campaigns, laid with strategy, carried on with strategy, carried on with success on a hundred fronts, sustained in a spirit and from the hearts of every individual, every town and village of the country. In the great intangibles of the human emotion respect i s inseparable from goodwill. The maintenance of respect requires that we sustain preparedness for a defence that is impregnable, yet contains no threat of aggression. From (just war happenings in America some : leaders in other countries came to beTieve they were in the presence of. the birth of new imperial power, intent on domination of other people. This is an utter misconception of America, We kllow there is desire to do justice, not to commit exploitation. We know there ’is no financial traditional or military imperialism, in America. Peace requires that no one of us shall •entertain ilhvilt toward others and give them no cause for the most dangerous of all amotions, fear.”