Herbert Hoover actually said...

"It is our understanding that the Conference is limited entirely to questions of the present emergency."

"Despite differences of language, tradition, and custom, the youth of the world have found in the organization a common ground for spiritual training and service to their church, community, and country..."

"Now, the reparations postponement has in our view taken the most dangerous strain off the whole situation."

"Time always helps in these things, and there is no occasion for any exaggerated anxiety about it."