The President's News Conference
08/03/1931
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The reductions must be real and positive.
No passport shall be granted or issued to or verified for any other persons than those owing allegiance, whether citizen...
This reduction should be carried out not only by broad general cuts in armaments but by increasing the comparative power...
I propose that the treaty number and tonnage of battleships shall be reduced by one-third.