The President's News Conference
03/31/1932
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One never makes a statement like that.
Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on th...
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.