Philadelphia, Sept. 2.
Breaking silence for the first time since he left the White House following his overwhelming defeat at the hands of the Democrats in 1982, the ex-President, Mr. Herbert "Hoover, assails the "New Deal" in an article the "Saturday Evening Post" this week.
The former President's article, entitled "The Challenge to Liberty," denounces the fundamental concepts of the "New Deal" and, in a rence, telterates Mr. Hoover's much-ridiculed theory of "rugged individualism."
Mr. Hoover warns that Americans gradually. are. being stripped of their traditional personal liberties.
Without mentioning specific names, the former" President stresses the tendency' of the Roosevelt Administration to" follow. the example of European. dictatorships inthe dan~ ferous concentration of power.
Mi. lower, wamne the. American Benwip "leading "either "into. the jo against following a willvo
swamps of primitive greed or to political tyranny."—United Press.
Allegations have been made that the fire was due to a mad incendiary who used bombs to start the con-Tagration. and that the fre broke our simultaneously in half' a places. 5 An assertion has also been made that the SES. was not sent until 45 Minutes after the fire had been discovered
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