TUESDAY, AUGUST 10. 1954
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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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
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Oregon basketball team arrived
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East during which they will play
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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
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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."
Then he said:
"The humor of It Is that when
we get sick, we want an uncommon
general or admiral. When we
choose the president of a univer
sity, we want an uncommon edu-
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"As the shadows lengthen ere
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