Statement About a Special Session of Congress.
05/21/1931
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This reduction should be carried out not only by broad general cuts in armaments but by increasing the comparative power...
It is folly for the world to go on breaking its back over military expenditure, and the United States is willing to take...
The armaments of the world have grown up in general mutual relation to each other.
I have informed Republican leaders that except for a few major addresses expounding policies of the administration I wil...