User:Rjensen/Herbert Hoover

Policy on enforcing peace
Carl Q Christol, Herbert Hoover: The League of Nations and the World Court" in Herbert Hoover Reassessed pp 335-379

Hoover was a strong supporter of the League of Nations in the early 1920s, insisting it be founded on principles of equity and justice and its influence be based essentially on moral strength but not on economic boycotts or the threat of military force. In his Memoirs he recalled:
 * My ambition and our foreign policies was to leave the United States in full cooperation with world moral forces to preserve peace. Unquote he stated in his inaugural address quote the United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity and peace of all humanity... Our sympathies are broadening beyond the bounds of our nation and race toward their true expression and a real brotherhood of men. "

Carl QChristol page 337

And it's inaugural address he said quote peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentalities for peaceful settlement of controversies. " Page 338

After the Senate rejected membership in the league, he worked for peaceful I'll come through the 1921 Washington conference, the 1922 9 power treaty, the 1923 peace treaty of Lausanne, the 1925 Locarno treaty, the 1928 Kellogg Briand Peace pact, the 1930 London naval treaty, and the 1932 Stimson doctrine, with the last two under his direct control Abbott page 338 Well he repeatedly rejected military intervention and economic sanctions, he did strongly emphasize the role of public opinion Myers foreign policies page 22

Hoover also negotiated and achieved the ratification of conciliation in arbitration agreements, Carl q Crystal based 339 In his 1932 acceptance speech for the presidential nomination he claimed his foreign policy accomplishments quote have been devoted to strengthening the foundation of world peace. We have expanded the arbitration of disputes. I have recommended joining the world court under proper reservations preserving our freedom of action. We've given leadership and transforming the Kellogg-Hyphen breon packed from an inspiring outlaw rear to an organized instrument for peaceful settlements back by definite mobilization of world public opinion against aggression... We shall enter no agreements committing us to any future course of action or which call for use of force to preserve peace. Quote hibbet page 339 However in one major episode regarding China he was willing to employ force. That was Japan's seizure of Shanghai by its naval and military forces. Hoover said quote their behavior toward the civil population was brutal beyond belief. At once I ordered a strong contingent of American troops and naval forces to Shanghai to protect the lives of Americans. I increased our Pacific fleet. I reinforced our Hawaiian and Philippine bases. There was no bluffing about this ibbit 339 quoting memoirs to page 374

Latin America
In the history of United States foreign policy, the Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–1903. The corollary states that the United States could intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American countries if they committed flagrant and chronic wrongdoings.

Roosevelt tied his policy to the Monroe Doctrine, and it was also consistent with his foreign policy included in his Big Stick Diplomacy. Roosevelt stated that in keeping with the Monroe Doctrine, the United States was justified in exercising "international police power" to put an end to chronic unrest or wrongdoing in the Western Hemisphere. President Herbert Hoover in 1930 endorsed the Clark Memorandum that repudiated the Roosevelt Corollary in favor of what was later called the Good Neighbor policy.

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pp 192-93 Communism prevented Am economic roles --& relief ops showed superiority of capitalism to starving Russians
 * Maddox, Robert James. William E. Borah and American Foreign Policy: 1907-1929 (1964).