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Herbert Hoover: “This reduction should be carried out not only by broad general cuts in armaments but by increasing the comparative power…”

On the recordJune 21, 1932
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.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on Instructions to the United States Delegation to the General Disarmament Conference

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