Address to the American National Red Cross.
05/20/1931
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They have been most kind.
These policies and measures will hold our hard-won American system of ordered liberty and government.
Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard...
I feel very proud of that tribute, and I appreciate very much the attitude of the press about it.