01 Mart 2010, Pazartesi
saat: 05:17
At one point during the war, Hoover hurried to Berlin to protest U-Boat sinkings of the Belgian Relief Commission's ships. A high German naval official assured him that it would never happen again. Hoover replied with a parable; "Your Excellency," he said, "there was a man once who was annoyed by a snarling dog. He went to the owner and asked him to muzzle the dog. 'There is no need of that' said the owner, 'the dog will never bite you.' 'Maybe' said the man, 'You know the dog will never bite me. I know the dog will never bite me. But does the dog know?'" "Pardon me one moment, Herr Hoover," said the official. "I will telephone at once the dog." And he did so.
