HARDING'S BETRAYAL
WHAT WAS HOOVER DOING ?
INJUDICIOUS COMMENT
WASHINGTON, 17th June.
Senator Walsh, investigator of th» United States oil scandals, commenting on President Hoover's address whejj! dedicating the Harding Memorial, inferontially charged the President with a dereliction of duty when, as a member of the Harding Cabinet, he did not expose the crookedness in existing high official circles. . ~., Senator Walsh drew attention to | President Hoover's assertion that "betrayal by his friends" was a contributing cause to ox-President'1 Harding'a death, and declared that it was injudicious for tho President now to make sucH a disclosure. ■■ ••• ■-'■■ ■ , ; At Marion, Ohio, on ICth Juno, Presi- | dent Hoover, in dedicating a 750,000----dollar Harding memorial," referred: to the late President as a "kindly" generous spirit," and recalled how, during the scandals of Presidont Harding's administration, ho was betrayed by a ,f<nr whom he trusted. The same men betrayed tho country. "That wns the tragedy of Warrcu Harding's Jifej***- | added President.; Hoover, . ■ •
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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155HARDING'S BETRAYAL Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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