Herbert Hoover: “I wish to take this occasion also to frankly state my views upon our relations to German reparations and the debts owed…”

The applicant's name should appear in full on the front page of the application, thus, 'John Henry Smith,' not 'J.H. Smith'

This reduction should be carried out not only by broad general cuts in armaments but by increasing the comparative power of defense through decreases in the power of the attack.

I propose that the arms of the world should be reduced by nearly one-third.

No such suggestion has ever been made by any American official.