NEUTRAL OUTLOOK
WESTERN EUROPE NATIONS EVENT OF ATTACK ON AMERICA Rec. 9 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 23. Britain and Western Europe might be neutral if the United States was attacked, said the former President, Mr Herbert Hoover, to-day. Mr Hoover, who was speaking at Washington’s birthday dinner, said: “This is not an accusation as to their good faith or their gratitude for our hav-
ing spent so much American treasure and blood in their liberation from Hitler. It is a bare, stark fact of the divided and weakened European nations in the 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,” Mr Hoover added that a federation of Western Europe would strengthen the forces of peace and defence.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26704, 25 February 1948, Page 6
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