HOOVER PLANS TO OVERTHROW SOVIET GOVERNMENT, SO SAYS RED GAZETTE
Berlin, Germany (JFK+50) In a front page story dated September 24, 1921, the New York Tribune reports that a Bolshevist newspaper, "The Krasnaya Gazette*", charges Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover** of plans to "overthrow the Soviet government with the aid of the American Relief Association*** and the local food distribution committees in Russia."
The Gazette, described as an "organ of Petrograd," editorialized...
"The Soviet government will readily accept ... products intended to relieve the starving population, but ... will repute direct attacks against it."
*The Kransnaya Gazeta (The Red Gazette) a daily newspaper and organ of the central provincial city communists of the All-Union Communist Party and the Petrograd/Leningrad Soviet published 1918-1939.
**Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding & Coolidge, 1921-1928.
***American Relief Association, founded in 1919 & directed by Herbert Hoover was a relief mission to Europe and Russia after WWI. ARA sent shiploads of food & supplies for the starving populations of these areas.
SOURCES
"Krasnaya Gazeta (The Red Gazette) newspaper," Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia, www.encspb.ru/
"Reds Charge Hoover Plots to Overthrow the Soviet," The New York Tribune, September 25, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
