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TUESDAY, AUGUST 10. 1954 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON FAGS mi Policies Of Democrats Hit By Ex-President In Birthday Speech By RELMAN MORIN WEST BRANCH, la., I Former President Herbert Hoover, speak ing today on his 80th birthday, ac cused his Democratic successors of pursuing policies toward the Soviet Union which destroyed hu sian freedoms and "spread com munism over the earth." ( American recognition of Russia In 1933. Hoover said, "opened the headgates for a torrent of traitors." He delivered the speech from the cottage in West Branch were he was born. The state of Iowa honored his birthday with official celebrations. Hoover did not specifically name Presidents Roosevelt or Truman. He spoke, however, of the events of the 20 years preceding the pres ent Republican administration. This period, he said, saw the "encroachment" by the White House on the other two branches of government. He attacked "ex ecutive agreements" and commit ments made to foreign nations "without the specific consent of the elected representatives of the people." Of these, he said: "There has been a grievous list of such commitments. They include international agreements which shackle our economy by limiting a free market. "But more terrible were such ex ecutive agreements as our recogni tion of Soviet Russia which opened the headgates for a torrent' of traitors. Our tacit alliance with Soviet Russia spread communism over the earth." He said the agreements at Teh ran and Yalta "extinguished the liberties of tens of millions of ' people." He called these actions ''appeasement and surrender," and said another agreement started the communiaation of Mongolia, North Korea and China. "These unrestrained presidential actions," Hoover said, "have re sulted in a shrinking of human freedom over the whole .world. "From these actions came the Jeopardies of the cold war. As a byproduct, these actions have shrunk our freedoms by crushing taxes, huge defense costs and com pulsory military service." Speaking from a prepared text, IN KOREA SEOUL Wl The University of Oregon basketball team arrived Monday night on a tour of the Far East during which they will play local teams In Korea, Formosa, Manila, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore and Tokyo, Hoover summarized his beliefs dis tilled from his years In govern ment and ranged widely over the development of both domestic and foreign policy. "Our people at one time were closer to the goals of human wel fare than any other civilization in all history," he said. He described the origins of the separation of powers In the Ameri can government, and the system of checks and balances. "These separations of power be came seriously confused, corroded and weakened during the 20 years before this administration," Hoover said. Some of these "corrosions," he said, resulted from war, others from what he called "the various infections of socialism." , "During the last war. we wit nessed a special encroachment of the executive upon the legislative branch. This has been through a new type of commitment of the United, States to other nations," he said. He characterized as "unre strained presidential actions" the recognition of Russia and "our ac quiescence" In Russian policies in Europe and Asia. "We must make such misuse of power forever impossible," Hoover said, adding: "And let me say that I have no fears from President Eisenhower, but he will not always be presi dent." He said communism constitutes a "gigantic evil" dangerous to the United States and went on to say: "All of the peace agencies we have created and all the confer ences we have held have failed to find even a whisper of real peace." He said he had disagreed with, and protested what he considered the most dangerous of American foreign policies during the 20 years in which Roosevelt and Truman were in office. As an example, he recalled the summer of 1941 when Hitler's ar mies launched the attack on Rus sia. He said they should have been allowed to destroy each other. "I urged that the gargantuan jest of all history would be our giving aid to the Soviet government." he said. "I urged we should allow those two dictators to exhaust each other. I stated that the result of our assistance would be to spread communism over the whole world. I urged that if we stood aside the time would come when we could bring lasting peace to the world." Hoover then told his audience: "I have no regrets. The con sequences have proved that I was right." Meanwhile, he said, communism was beginning to take hold in the United States. He declared, how ever: 1 "The rank and file of our peo ple are immune from this Infec tion. The recruiting grounds for their agents are from our minor ity of fuzzy-minded intellectuals and labor leaders." He touched on the questions of the Fifth Amendment, the FBI and congressional committees In connection with ' exposing such people. The former president said he Is not afraid that the Communists can destroy America, Greater concern, he said, should be reserved for the socialists, whom he listed among "the other varieties of the Karl Marx virus." The net result of their programs. Hoover said, is to stultify free doms, incentives, the courage, and the creative impulses of the peo ple. "Beyond all this, there Is proof in the world that the end result of socialism can be bloody commu nism . . . They furnished the board ing ladders by which the commu nists captured the ship of state." He described as a "gimmick" the cradle -to-grave philosophy which' he said the socialists advo cate and said: "It is solely the initiative and the labor of the physically able in the prime of life that can support the aged, the young, the sick and the bureaucracy. "And this active earning group requires the pressures of compe tition, the rewards of enterprise and new adventure to keep it on the job. Even if security from the cradle 'to the grave could elimin ate the risk of life. It would be a IT'S POOLE'S FOR TOYS Largest Year LOWEST Round Stock! PRICES! dead hand on the spirit of our people." ' He said England under Its pre vious "socialist government" was an object example. Hoover talked sarcastically about what be said was another socialist preoccupation "the common man." He called this "a vote getting apparatus. . . another cousin of the Soviet proletariat ... the negation of individual dignity and a slogan of mediocrity and uniformity." 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