Address to the American National Red Cross.
05/20/1931
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Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on th...
The armaments of the world have grown up in general mutual relation to each other.
I propose that the treaty number and tonnage of battleships shall be reduced by one-third.
This reduction should be carried out not only by broad general cuts in armaments but by increasing the comparative power...