REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
MR HOOVER’S ATTITUDE EVERY AID TO ALLIES SHORT OF WAR | j [U.P.A. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] (Received 26th June, 2 p.m.) PHILADELPHIA, 25th June. | Mr Herbert Hoover, in a speech at i the Republican Convention, urged the i nation, firstly, to stay out of the war ; unless the western hemisphere was atj tacked, meanwhile to grant the peoples ■ fighting for freedom every aid short jof war and within international law; | secondly, to construct the most power- ; ful navy in United States’ history, j Many of Mr Hoover’s friends are ' j hopeful that the speech would make him the outstanding contender for the ' j Presidential nomination. I The Republican Resolutions Commit- ; j tee unanimously approved the foreign -1 policy platform defining the Republi- ,' cans as champions of “peace, preparedi j ness and Americanism.” and denounci j ing New Deal foreign policies and put- • i ting the party on record as favouring J aid to “oppressed peoples” within the ! limits of international law.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 26 June 1940, Page 6
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