Re: Re: nice Herbert Hoover

[Chris Brady <chris_brady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(in ref. to the quoted below)
Didn't Hoover use food as a political tool
in famine-threatened, post-war Europe (ca. 1919)?
I seem to recall he kept food from going to people
in communist areas. A convincing argument under
the circumstances, probably, as in:
"Better fed than red."

--Chris Brady


"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote:

>  [Hoover:] an evil "Marxoid." [???]
>
> > Hoover, he is a mixed bag.
> > He was a thoroughgoing racist in his work as a mining engineer.  He was
> > reputed to be very efficient in distributing food, with some exceptions,
> > such as Hungary.
> >
> > Michael Perelman wrote:
> >
> > > Hoover also shipped a hell of a lot of food to Europe in the
> > > aftermath of World War I--and did an amazing job of organizing the
> > > relief effort. Up until his presidency, Herbert Hoover was an amazing
> > > social plus for the world as a whole.