Herbert Hoover: “I am happy also to acknowledge the impetus given the settlement by the suggestions of Ambassador Gibson conveyed in…”

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

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.

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

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