Herbert Hoover: “One never makes a statement like that.”

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.

We must make headway against the mutual fear and friction arising out of war armament which kill human confidence throughout the world.

We have no desire for offensive armament.

Executive Order No. 4610, approved March 10, 1927, as amended by Executive Order No. 4833, March 19, 1928, and by Executive Order No. 5001, November 23, 1928, is revoked effective July 1, 1932.