Herbert Hoover: “It is essential that we should maintain the sound American tradition and spirit of voluntary aid in such emergency.”

It was unfortunate also that the provision for agricultural relief through the Reconstruction Corporation was omitted.

The reductions must be real and positive.

One never makes a statement like that.

The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhelming burden of armament which now lies upon the toilers of the world.