Herbert Hoover: “It is my happy privilege on behalf of our nation to congratulate the Commission.”

This reduction should be carried out not only by broad general cuts in armaments but by increasing the comparative power of defense through decreases in the power of the attack.

Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard 'police component.'

Executive Order No. 4610, approved March 10, 1927, as amended by Executive Order No. 4833, March 19, 1928, and by Executive Order No. 5001, November 23, 1928, is revoked effective July 1, 1932.

There is another phase of the bill as passed which is disheartening.