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Herbert Hoover: “The Conference, as you know, is more concerned with land armaments than it is with naval armament, and from the point of…”

On the recordJanuary 4, 1932
The Conference, as you know, is more concerned with land armaments than it is with naval armament, and from the point of view of land armament the United States is per capita the least armed of any of the great nations.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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