胡佛演講稿：WarComestoEurope.doc

胡佛演講稿：WarComestoEurope 導(dǎo)讀：胡佛演講稿：War Comes to Europe赫伯特克拉克胡佛(herbert clark hoover,1874 年 8 月 10 日 -1964 年 10 月 20 日)，美國(guó)第 31 任總統(tǒng)。共和黨籍。除從事政治 外，還是采礦工程師和作家。曾任沃倫 g 哈定europes return to westphalia胡佛演講稿：War Comes to Europe赫伯特克拉克胡佛(herbert clark hoover,1874 年 8 月 10 日 -1964 年 10 月 20 日)，美國(guó)第 31 任總統(tǒng)。共和黨籍。除從事政治 外，還是采礦工程師和作家。曾任沃倫 g 哈定和卡爾文柯立芝兩 屆總統(tǒng)的商務(wù)部長(zhǎng)，其間打出“經(jīng)濟(jì)現(xiàn)代化”的旗號(hào)推動(dòng)政府干 預(yù)經(jīng)濟(jì)。1928 年大選，此前從未經(jīng)選舉而擔(dān)當(dāng)政府職位的胡佛輕 松贏得黨內(nèi)提名，并在國(guó)內(nèi)一片欣欣向榮的樂(lè)觀氣氛中完勝民主 黨候選人阿爾史密斯當(dāng)選總統(tǒng)。他是美國(guó)迄今為止由內(nèi)閣部長(zhǎng)直 接升為總統(tǒng)的最后一人。war comes to europe september 1, 1939 fellow americans of the radio audience: this is one of the saddest weeks that have come to humanity in a hundred years. a senseless war seems inevitably forced upon hundreds of millions of people. the whole world still prays for some miracle that might deliver us. for war means the killing of millions of the best and the most courageous of men who might contribute something to humans progress. it means the killing and starvation ofmillions of women and children. it means another quarter of a century of impoverishment for the whole world. and it will likely be a long war. it is possible that the brave people of poland may be overrun in a few months, but there seems no point of access from which an overwhelming attack can be delivered from the british and french on one side, to the germans on the other, which might quickly end this war. its likely to be a war of slow attrition, and the fate of poland will depend upon its ending. the air defenses of france and england, their greatly superior naval strength, their manpower, their resources, their resolution, make it certain that they can defend themselves. and it is true that vast fleets of airplanes on both sides contribute a new and uncertain factor, but there is nothing which proves that even the superiority in airplanes can win the war. and while assurances have been given that there will be no bombing of women and children, there may come a time of desperation when all restraints go to the winds. its likely to be the most barbarous war that we have ever known.this situation in the world today is not the act of the german people themselves, but its the act of a group who hold them in subjection. the whole nazi system is repugnantto the american people. the most of american sympathy will be to the democracies, but whatever our sympathies are, we can not solve the problems of europe. america must keep out of this war. the president and the congress should be supported in their every effort to keep us out. we can keep out, if we have the resolute national will to do so. we can be of more service to europe and to humanity if we preserve the vitality and strength of the united states for use in the period of p