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proposed new article on the Foreign Policy of Herbert Hoover

I propose starting a new article on the Foreign policy of Herbert Hoover--to be based on snippets from various other articles and lots of new material. Everyone agrees that world affairs was his long suit, so it seems useful to pull it all together. Any comments or suggestions? Rjensen (talk) 04:04, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. This means that the most recent president with no spin-off article about his foreign policy is Calvin Coolidge. Dimadick (talk) 08:02, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Removed misleading quote

I edited the following sentence from the paragraph about Mexican Repatriation and moved it one sentence down for clarity:

"Some scholars contend that the unprecedented number of repatriations between 1929 and 1933 were part of an 'explicit Hoover administration policy'."

The source cited is Gratton, Brian; Merchant, Emily (December 2013). "Immigration, Repatriation, and Deportation: The Mexican-Origin Population in the United States, 1920-1950". Vol. 47, no. 4. The International migration review. pp. 944–975. No specific page cited.

The source actually says (page 955):

"Formal deportations of Mexicans occurred at a particularly dramatic rate from 1930 through 1933, as part of an explicit Hoover administration policy announced in his State of the Union Address in 1930 (Hoover, 1930; Hull, 1931)."

There is a key distinction between deportation (legal removals by the government) and repatriation (extra-legal or informal removals). The article cited is quite clear, despite unsubstantiated claims by other writers, that the Hoover Administration had no formal policy regarding repatriation, but a very explicit one regarding deportation.

I replaced the word "repatriation" in the original sentence with "deportation." Hulfnar (talk) 15:52, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]