There are answers to our
current problems in the comments made by Herbert Hoover.
Herbert Hoover
warned us about a huge evil, Bill
Federer recounts warnings about forces which 'corrode away the safeguards of
freedom', 10/19/16
In declining health,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter, April 5, 1945, to the Saudi
King. promising not to recognize a Jewish state. A week later, Roosevelt died,
April 12, 1945. The next President, Harry S. Truman, immediately took steps to
recognize the state of Israel.
Former President Herbert
Hoover proposed a solution to the Middle East crisis, as reported by
Scripps-Howard Press, Nov. 19, 1945: “In ancient times the irrigation of the
Tigris and Euphrates Valleys supported probably 10 million people in the
kingdoms of Babylon and Nineveh. The deterioration and destruction of their
irrigation works by the Mongol invasion centuries ago, and their neglect for
ages, are responsible for the shrinkage of the population to about 3,500,000
people in modern Iraq.
Some 30 years ago, Sir
William Willcocks, an eminent British engineer, completed a study of the
restoration of the old irrigation system. He estimated that about 2,800,000
acres of the most fertile land in the world could be recovered at a cost of
under $150,000,000.
Some progress has been made
under the Iraq government but their lack of financial resources and the delay
of war have retarded the work greatly. My own suggestion is that Iraq might be
financed to complete this great land development on the consideration that it
be made the scene of resettlement of the Arabs from Palestine. …”
Hoover continued: “This
would clear Palestine completely for a large Jewish emigration and
colonization. A suggestion of transfer of the Arab people of Palestine was made
by the British Labor Party in December, 1944, but no adequate plan was proposed
as to where or how they were to go. There is room for many more Arabs in such a
development in Iraq than the total Arabs in Palestine. The soil is more fertile.
They would be among their
own race which is Arab-speaking and Mohammedan. The Arab population of
Palestine would be the gainer from better lands in exchange for their present
holdings. Iraq would be the gainer for it badly needs agricultural population.
…
“Today millions of people
are being moved from one land to another. If the lands were organized and homes
provided, this particular movement could be made the model migration of
history. It would be a solution by engineering instead of by conflict. I
realize that the plan offers a challenge both to the statesmanship of the Great
Powers as well as to the goodwill of all parties concerned. However, I submit
it and it does offer a method of settlement with both honor and wisdom.”
Herbert Hoover stated in a
presidential campaign speech, Oct. 31, 1932: “Free speech does not live many
hours after free industry and free commerce die. … No man who has not occupied
my position in Washington can fully realize the constant battle which must be
carried on against … tyranny of government expanded into business activities.”
Herbert Hoover had
coordinated relief to millions when the Mississippi River levees broke during
the 1927 flood. He organized feeding 300 million in 21 countries of Europe and
Russia following World War I. His entire life he refused payment for public
service.
In 1928, Herbert Hoover was
elected the 31st U.S. president in a landslide victory. His vice president,
Charles Curtis, was the first Native American to hold that office.
In his inaugural address,
March 4, 1929, he stated: “I assume this trust in the humility of knowledge
that only through the guidance of Almighty Providence can I hope to discharge
its ever-increasing burdens.”
In “The Challenge of
Liberty,” 1934, Herbert Clark Hoover declared: “While I can make no claim for
having introduced the term, ‘rugged individualism,’ I should be proud to have
invented it. It has been used … in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of
honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them
to make their own way in life.”
Hoover stated: “Freedom is
an open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and of
human dignity. With the preservation of these moral and spiritual qualities and
with God’s grace will come further greatness for our country.”
Born in 1874, his Quaker
mother taught Sunday School and spoke at Friend’s meetings before dying when he
was 10 years old. Hoover lived on an Indian Reservation in Oklahoma before
moving to Oregon. He worked his way through Stanford University doing laundry,
delivering papers and working for the U.S. Geological Survey.
Herbert Hoover served under
Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Truman and Eisenhower. At the onset of
the Depression, in an address at Valley Forge, May 30, 1931, President Hoover
stated: “If those few thousand men endured that long winter of privation and
suffering … held their countrymen to the faith, and by that holding held fast
the freedom of America, what right have we to be of little faith?”
On Oct. 18, 1931, in an
address which began a nation-wide drive to aid the private relief agencies,
President Herbert Hoover stated: “This civilization … which we call American
life, is builded and can alone survive upon the translation into individual
action of that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen
centuries ago.”
On Sept. 15, 1932, to
leaders of the “national drive” committee for voluntary relief agencies,
President Herbert Hoover stated: “We maintain the spiritual impulses in our
people for generous giving and generous service – in the spirit that each is
his brother’s keeper.”
After his term in office,
Herbert Clark Hoover proposed reorganizing the United Nations to exclude
Communist countries, as he told the American Newspaper Publishers Association,
April 27, 1950: “What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual
mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red
agnosticism. It needs a moral mobilization against the hideous ideas of the
police state and human slavery. … I suggest that the United Nations should be
reorganized without the Communist nations in it. If that is impractical, then a
definite New United Front should be organized of those peoples who disavow
communism, who stand for morals and religion, and who love freedom.”
Hoover continued: “It is a
proposal based solely upon moral, spiritual and defense foundations. It is a
proposal to redeem the concept of the United Nations to the high purpose for
which it was created. It is a proposal for moral and spiritual cooperation of
God-fearing free nations. And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am
confident that the Almighty God will be with us.”
Herbert Hoover spoke at a
reception on his 80th birthday in West Branch, Iowa, Aug. 10, 1954, warning: “I
have witnessed on the ground in 20 nations the workings of the philosophy of
that anti-Christ, Karl Marx. There rises constantly in my mind the forces which
make for progress and those which may corrode away the safeguards of freedom in
America.
Today the Socialist virus
and poison gas generated by Karl Marx and Friedreich Engels have spread into
every nation on the earth. Their dogma is absolute materialism which defies
truth and religious faith. … To this whole gamut of Socialist infections, I say
to you … God has blessed us with another wonderful word – ‘heritage.’ The great
documents of that heritage are not from Karl Marx. They are from the Bible, the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Within
them alone can the safeguards of freedom survive.”
Herbert Clark Hoover, who
was a member of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, stated: “The whole
inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the
lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a
necessity of American life.”
Herbert Hoover, who died
Oct. 20, 1964, signed a joint-statement during World War II with the widows of
Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Taft, Harrison and Cleveland, which
stated: “Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength
in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy
is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human
life. On the religious side, its highest embodiment is the Bible; on the
political side, the Constitution.”
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