HOOVER’S COUNSEL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1940, Page 6

HOOVER’S COUNSEL

AMERICAN WAR POLICY NON-INTERVENTION URGED. WITH ASSISTANCE FOR ALLIES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PHILADELPHIA, June 25. Mr Herbert Hoover, in a speech at the Republican Convention, urged the nation first to stay out of the war unless the Western Hemisphere is attacked, and meanwhile to grant to the peoples fighting for freedom every aid short of war and within international law; second, to construct the most powerful navy in the history of the United States.

Many of Mr Hoover's friends are hopeful that the speech will make him the outstanding contender for the Presidential nomination.

The Republican Resolutions Committee unanimously approved the foreign policy platform, which defines Republicans as the champions of “peace, preparedness, and Americanism,” denouncing the New Deal foreign policies, and putting the party on record as favouring aid to “oppressed peoples” within the limits of international law.

SENATOR’S HOPE BRITAIN FIGHTING FROM NEW WORLD. WASHINGTON, June 25. Senator Pittman, in Press statement, said: “Mr Churchill's statement, ‘We will never surrender, and if any portions of the British Isles are subjugated we will fight from the new world with our navy,’ if carried out, and carried out immediately, will end Hitler's ambition for world conquest. It is to be hoped that this plan will not be too long delayed by futile encouragement to fight on. It is conclusively evident that Congress will not authorise intervention in a European war.”