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On the recordApril 17, 1930
It is my understanding that the battleship and aircraft carriers paragraph, together with the submarines provision, and the definition of the various categories, which is rather an elaborate definition, will comprise the five-power portion of the treaty.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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