DEMOCRAT RULE IN U.S.

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27426, 12 August 1954, Page 11

DEMOCRAT RULE IN U.S.

Former President’s Criticism (Rec. 10 p.m.) WEST BRANCH (Iowa), Aug. 10. A former President, Mr Herbert Hoover, came back to his birthplace for his eightieth birthday today and said in a speech that “unrestrained Presidential actions” during previous Democratic Administrations helped to “spread communism over the earth.” Mr Hoover also said that “spies and trailers” who sought sanctuary in the Fifth Amendment should be stripped of the right to vote. Mr Hoover, who headed the Republican Administration of 1929-33, delivered the speech from the cottage in which he was bom. The State of lowa honoured his birthday with official celebrations.

The former Republican leader attacked the war-time agreements at Yalta and Teheran, which, he said, “extinguished the liberties of tens of millions of people.” He called these actions “appeasement and surrender.”

“These unrestrained Presidential actions,” Mr Hoover said, “have resulted in a shrinking ot human freedom over tb'’ whole world.” "!r Hoover said that the historic American doctrine of the separation of powers between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government had become “corroded” during the 20 years of Democratic Party rule. *

“During the last war we witnessed a special encroachment of the executive upon the legislative branch,” he said. “This has been through a new type of commitment of the United States to other nations. The real issue is whether the President, through declaration or implication or by appeasement, or by joint statements with foreign officials, can commit the American people to foreign nations without the specific consent of the elected representatives of the people.” War Policy Criticised

When Hitler’s armies launched their attack on the Soviet Union, the two nations should have been allowed to destroy each other, Mr Hoover said. “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. The consequences have proved that I was right.” Saying that the rank and file of the American people were immune to the Communist “infection,” he added that greater concern should be reserved for the Socialists, whom he listed among “the other varieties of the Karl Marx virus.” The net result of Socialist programmes, Mr Hoover said, was to stultify freedoms, incentives, the courage, and the creative impulses of the people. “Beyond all this, there is proof m the world that the end result of socialism can be bloody comTnunism. They furnished the boarding ladders by which the Communists captured the ship of state,” he said.