Read the following passage from Hoover's 1930 State of the Union address:
The cumulative effects of demoralizing price falls of these important commodities in the process of adjustment of production to world consumption have produced financial crises in many countries and have diminished the buying power of these countries for imported goods to a degree which extended the difficulties farther afield by creating unemployment in all the industrial nations. The political agitation in Asia; revolutions in South America and political unrest in some European States; the methods of sale by Russia of her increasing agricultural exports to European markets; and our own drought - have all contributed to prolong and deepen the depression.
What is Hoover's tone toward other countries in this passage?
A. Unconcerned and cavalier.
B. Knowledgeable and aware.
C. Confident and positive.
D. Callous and cool.
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