Herbert Hoover: “I am appointing a nationwide advisory committee to assist Mr. Gifford.”

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.

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.

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

The armaments of the world have grown up in general mutual relation to each other.