Herbert Hoover: “The days we are now passing through are times of stress and times that require the unremitting service of the men whom…”

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.

Enlisted men of the Marine Corps having established their special qualifications in the use of the arm or arms which they are required to use, under such regulations and conditions as are now, or may hereafter be, prescribed by the…

These expenditures cannot be recovered; they must be met by the taxpayer now or in the future.

I earnestly hope that this may be done.