Herbert Hoover: “In the name of the people of the United States, as in my own, I wish to give voice to our profound appreciation of so…”

Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard 'police component.'

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.

While these features in the Wagner and the Garner bills are not in the form and are not as well safeguarded as they should be, they are in line with major objectives I have been advocating.

I propose the adoption of the presentation already made at the Geneva Conference for the abolition of all tanks, all chemical warfare, and all large mobile guns.