U.S. At War: Who But Hoover?

Last week, of all times, sincere, stubborn, tactless Herbert Hoover, of all people, published a book (America's First Crusade; Scribner; $1.25). Of all books, it was the most untimely. It told for the umpteenth bitter time how Britain—now a life-or-death ally of the U.S.—and France cheated the U.S. out of its just deserts at the peace conference of Versailles.