Herbert Hoover: “The people and the governments of the five nations assembling at this meeting are sincerely desirous that agreement…”

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.

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

We must make headway against the mutual fear and friction arising out of war armament which kill human confidence throughout the world.

Provided further, That the charge for the issue of an original passport shall be $9.