BRITISH OPINION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 266, 9 November 1928, Page 7

BRITISH OPINION.

HOOVER ACCEPTABLE.

President With Wide Experience

Of The World.

SERVICES TO EUROPE.

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) LONDON, November 8. All the English newspapers devote editorial articles to the United States Presidential election. Elaborate trans-Atlantic cable and wireless arrangements were made to rush the results through. The "Morning Post" says: "We do not expect a change in America's policy toward Europe. As for the League of Nations, it is rumoured that Mr. Hoover is touched with the Wilsonian doctrine, but is not likely to try a fall with the Republican members of the Senate.

"Americans were shrewd enough to sense the subtle dangers to national unity and independence lurking in the internationalism of Geneva, and we shall be left in undisturbed possession of 'the baby.' Now that the election is over, we trust Britain will no longer be accused of deep, dark designs against the security of the United States."

The "Daily Telegraph" says: "It would be wrong to lay stress upon any particular issue, whether religion or social legislation, as the final cause of the Republican victory. The party appealed for a renewal of confidence on the broad ground that the United States, under the Republican regime, had enjoyed unexampled prosperity.

"It is not surprising that Mr. Smith failed to convince his countrymen that they might be better off and taxed even more lightly when every American is conscious that his standard of living is higher than that of any nation in the world's history, and that his outlook is most favourable. In Mr. Hoover Americans undoubtedly will have a competent President. He is remembered with gratitude in Europe for his services in relieving destitution during and afteT the war."

The "Financial News" describes Mr. Hoover as the only President who had become widely conversant with the world through his own travels before he was chosen. It says the people of the United States overwhelmingly accept the view that their prosperity is dependent to a large extent on enterprise under the individual leadership of men capable of handling big business. Mr. Hoover is credited with exceptional capacity for understanding the complications of modern industrial and commercial problems.

The "Daily Chronicle" says: "Though Mr. Hoover based his appeal on the ground that the completely prosperous country had better not change its Government, he is not the man to sit idle and refrain from initiating new courses. So far as foreign affairs are concerned, he has solid knowledge and personal experience beyond those of all previous Presidents. Perhaps nothing matters more than that."