Herbert Hoover: “I thought it might be desirable to make that clear to the employees of the Government.”

I propose that the treaty number and tonnage of battleships shall be reduced by one-third.

No such suggestion has ever been made by any American official.

I had the pleasure of his acquaintance and I shared the admiration he inspired in all who knew him by his joyous humanity and his unlimited interest in and devotion to the happiness and well-being of others.

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.