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Show iFilTiiT" I.ME1T HOOVER Publication of Statement Without With-out His Permission Roils Former Food Director NEW YORK, March 17. Herbert Hoover today Issued a statement in which he said he had modified hi:s opinion, expressed' in a letter to President Presi-dent Wilson last April, that the United States would not be represented on tho various boards provided to enforce peace in Europe. He now favors thia country having a representative on the reparations' commission in order that American interests may be protected He protests against the publication or his letter to President Wilson on thb ground that it was not issued from the Whie House and he had not consented to its publication, Tho statement follows: "1 have seen in some of this morn ing's papers a copy of a memorandum of mine that was prepared in tho course of the peace conference on the subject of our participation in the large number' of international commissions commis-sions set up in Europe. As to the views expressed in the memorandum, they were later modified as to the particular par-ticular of our having a representative on the reparation commission itself because of the large economic control finally given to it over a great part cf Europe and the complete necessilv for the United States to be represented thereon at once in order to protect the American interests. "Regardless of any personal point of view in this matter, there is to me nothing that is such a breach of good taste or the, very foundations of re-' latlons among government officials as' for them to Issue to the press corre-l spondence that may have passed bc- tween them ajid their superiors in the ' courso of their service without ap-i proval on both sides. I am informed I It was not issued from the Whtie House. It is scarcely necessary for me to say that it was not released by me and that a searching inquiry In my. own office satisfies me that ithas not; come from my staff." , I |