U.S. HAS NO SURE ALLIES
MR. HOOVER’S BELIEF EUROPE DIVIDED (10 a.m.) NEW YORK. Feb. 24. Britain and Western Europe might be neutral if the United States was attached, said the ex-President. Mr. Herbert Hoover, today. Mr Hoover, who was speaking at W a s h i n gton’s birthday dinner, said: “This is not an accusation as to their good faith or their gratitude for our having spent much American treasure and blood in their liberation from Hitler. It is the bare, stark fact of divided and weakened European nations in face of the Red Army’s 2,500,000 men along the iron curtain. We must realise that if somebody made
war on us we have no certain military allies in the world.” He added that the federation of Western Europe would strengthen the forces of peace and defence.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22570, 25 February 1948, Page 5
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