HOOVER EULOGISED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20099, 9 November 1928, Page 13

HOOVER EULOGISED.

BRITISH PRESS COMMENT

POLICY TOWARD EUROPE.

SOLID KNOWLEDGE AN ASSET

Austmlian Preen Association—United Service (Received November 8, 0.5 p.m.) U)NDON. Nov. 7. All tlio English newspapers devote editorial articles to the United Slates Presidential election. Elaborate transatlantic cable and wireless arrangements were made to rush tlio results through.

The Morning Post says: " Wo do not expect a change in America's policy toward Europe. As for tlio League of Nations, it is rumoured that Mr. Hoover is touched with the Wilsotiiaii doctrine, hut 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 bo left in undisturbed possession of ' tlio baby.' Now that the election is over, wo trust Rritain will no longer ho accused of deep, dark designs against the security of tlio United States." Europe Grateful to Hoover. Tlio Daily Telegraph says: It would bo wrong to lay stress upon any particular issue, whether religion or social legislation, as the final cause of tlio 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. Snuth failed to convince his countrymen that they might bo 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 hive a competent Piesident. Mo is remembered with grati. tudo m Kuropo for his services in relieving destitution during and after tlio war.

Tlio Financial News describes Mr. Hoover as tho only President who had become widely conversant with tho world through his owji travels before ho was chosen. It says the people of tho United States overwhelmingly accept tho 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 f"r understanding tho complications of modern industrial and commercial problems.

Experienced in Foreign Affairs,

The Daily Chronicle says: Though Mr. Hoover bused his appeal oil the ground that thi! 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 e\pei'ienee beyond flioso nl' . all previous Presidents. Perhaps nothing matters more llian that.

The Daily Express says: With a united party behind him and millions of women urixions to registei their votes againstdrink, against the I'oinan Catholics, and against the Bowery, Mr. Hoover was on velvet from the start. Mr. J>mith made a dramatic and forceful light. He might have won a country like England, tolerant, distrustful of extremes, and with fewsectarian prejudices. If he had won America, we could have welcomed him without reservation, but we are equally free to congratulate Mr. Hoover, who has first-hand knowledge of J'.uropean affairs such as no previous President has equalled. This is some guarantee that he will approach world politics nt least with a semi international mind. Labour's Hope For Socialist Rule. The Daily Herald : Why should the average American deleal the Republican Government and elect a Democrat one? The difference between them is negligible. It is a ca-e of " tweedle dnin and twecdledee." Ibe f.dse party svstem prevented the development on genuine lines of a cleavage.

It. as is not improbable, the election destroys the Democrat Party, it will permit real economic and social issues to assert themselves. f I his will result in a struggle about things that matter, which will be the first step toward a Socialist Government in the United States.

Viscountess Astor, M.P., said today that she gloried in (lie victory of the prohibitionists in America. I here was not the tinio>t chance of a 11 wet, " candidate becoming President. Ihe women of .America were determined to make prohibition successful. It might take 50 sears, but it would be done.

OPINION IN COI'NTKY. DEMOCRAT FUTURE DARK. EFFECT ON LIQUOR QUESTION. A list ial in n and N.X. Press Association. (Received November 8. 5.2.1 p.m.) NKW YORK. Nov. 7 From the wealth of editorial comment explaining Mr. Smith ■> defeat a leader ill the Register, published at Wheeling, West Virginia, i- one of the most int crest ing. It says: " Mr. Hoover':smashing \ictorv shows that ihe country opposed to having a Roman I atholic as President, and favours prohibition, as if no other issues counted.

" Willi a wrdge driven deep into the heretofore impregnable South, the tutiire of the I )emorrat Party is both doubtful ;m d dark. The farnrers of the West are too deeply imbued will) Republicanism |<> give any hope of agrarian strength. The East is too self-.sufficient to bother with minority parties or the possibility of a Republican Party split.

»,\ new party, new issues, new principles constitute the outstanding hope of the dissatisfied element in the population.'" A despatch from Washington to the New York Times says: "The consensus of opinion in Washington seems to bo that Mr. Smith's crushing defeat aVsures the maintenance of prohibition as a national policy for many'years to come. This at least is the view expressed by the leaders of the " dry " groups, and it is shared to some extent by some of the administration officials in their private discussions of the lessons taught by yesterday s election.