Herbert Hoover: “I have directed the Red Cross to take the matter in hand at once, and the Army and Navy will cooperate with them.”

No such suggestion has ever been made by any American official.

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

There is another phase of the bill as passed which is disheartening.

It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national-forest status which have hitherto not had such status, nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status.