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Show is f!I LE'l Relief Director Says Pact! Necessary for Return to Normal. NKW YORK, Sept. J :!. Herbert Hoover, who returned from Kuropo to- day, declared, in a statement issued j shortly after his arrival, that lie was not in politics and had no intention of seelune, political office. When told that his name had been frequently mentioned as a possible candidate for president, Mr. Hoover said: '''I am positively not a candidate and would decline to become one under any circumstances, 1 am not in politics." In regard to the league of nations, ilr. Hoover declared that he stood by it "in its present form or as near to it as can be 'obtained. " He asserted that there was no hope of a return; to nor nial conditions in Europe until the present pres-ent uncertainty in respect to the treaty was ended. .In referring to bolshevism, the former for-mer food administrator declared that its menace was over. " tt is gaining; ground nowhere," he said, "not even in Kussin. " Mr. Hoover will leave for California Wednesday and after a brief stay there will return to New York to prepare his report to congress on the expenditure expendi-ture of the $100,000,000 appropriated for relief in Europe. Mr. Hoover said that $90,000,000 of this amount either had been or would be returned by the European beneficiaries. . Mr. Hoover, who has been overseas since the armistice was signed as interallied inter-allied . relief director, was among the passengers on the liner Aquitania which arrived here early today. With Mr. Hoover are his wife and son, Allan. He will remain hero for the dinner to be tendered in his honor on Tuesday by the American Institute of Mining anil Metallurgical engineers and then go to his home at Palo Alto, California. Also on the Aquitania was Baron C'ioto and members of the Japanese commission. Japan will refuse to ratify the peace treaty if tho Shantung clause is ex-eluded, ex-eluded, in the opinion of Baron Goto, member of the Japanese national commission com-mission for discussion of foreign policies poli-cies and former foreign minister,- who is on his way home after a three months' visit 'to England and France. Baron Goto said he spoke as a private citizen and was expressing only his personal per-sonal views. "It is unreasonable," he said, "that anyone should oppose the treaty in its present form. President Wilson is absolutely ab-solutely right. Ho understands Japan and our sincerity with regard to Shantung. Shan-tung. I am convinced Mr. Wilson will stand by what he believes and I think tho treaty will be ratified." |