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Mrs. C. C. Nelson and Family wish to thank all relatives and friends for their attendance at the funeral, messages. of sympathy and for flowers sent.

Some observers point out that wile - President Boosevelt's foreign policy seems discredited this is not true of that of Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State Mr. Hull announced in July last that the United States was interested in seeking to ob- tain the maintenance of treaties, the peaceful settlement of dis- putes, the stabilising of trade and industry, and the breaking down of barriers against com merce throughout the world. It seems not unlikely that these ambitions may become the main points of American foreign po |licy.

fact that the United States is While one cannot ignore the bitterly disappointed with the developments in Britain, it should not be assumed that she will abruptly and completely turn its Hong Kong, Saturday, April 2, 1938. back on all types of internation-

MR. HOOVER'S ANALYSIS

al co-operation. In the Far East, for example, unless Great Bri- tain again reveals a sharp change of policy, all the reasons for par allel action that previously ex- Ex-President Hoover is not the listed are still there so far as the United States Government, but United States is concerned. the significance of his speech in As was to be expected, there Washington on his return from has been much discussion his European tour is not likely Washington as to what extent, if to be lost in London. Mr. Hoover any,

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attitude of the United has been more than three months States forced the change in Bri- making the rounds of the capitish policy. Some persons, like tals of Europe, discussing pol Senator Borah, believe that Great tics with the leading statesmen of Britain was compelled to change all countries and, summing up her policy because she found that his impressions, he describes the she could not count upon the co- Continent as a rumbling war ma operation of the United States. chine. He sees a war coming. Others contend that the United talks in terms suggesting that States under both President his conviction is shared where Hoover and President Roosevelt it matters most and, at once, sought to co-operate against the ranges himself on the side of aggressors and was rebuffed. America's out-and-out isolation-Those holding this view cite, for ists. Paradoxically enough, he example, the efforts of Mr. Hen- outlines a course, of foreign po- Stimson, as Secretary of licy for the United States which State, to obtain joint action is hardly distinguishable from against Japan when she seized the doctrines stated by Lord Manchuria, President Roosevelt's Halifax and Mr. Neville ham willingness to impose an oil em- berlain, while stressing, in the bargo against Italy early in the forefront of his taboos, the ne- Abyssinian war, the American cessity for avoiding any associa-programme at the Brussels Can- tion with Great Britain. The ference, President Roosevelt's paradox lies in the assumption quarantine speech," and so on. that while following similar tac- Those taking this position over- fics Britain is unlikely, in the look the fact that in American opinion of Mr. Hoover, to keep political life the President Lout of war, the policy is adequate, poses but Congress disposes, and- for America. That, however, is that even Congress is greatly less izsportant than the fact that changed in response to public Mr. Hoover has returned to the will every two years. United States a campaigner and What interests Whitehall a determined campaigner in the however, is the point of cause of an abandonment of the tion which Ame policy of parallel action with the have found in eve democracies, and Mr. Chamber with a breath lain may well reflect upon how can no longer be accuse much he has contributed to the ing a secret alliance with readiness of the United States to Britain for joint action by the give Mr. Hoover a willing ear by democracies cainst the “22. his decision to jettison Mr. An-cist Powers. They may in fact thony Eden and embark on a new be regarded as keeping pace with course in foreign policy.

Mr. Hoover.