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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.

Any study of many of these public works provisions will indicate plainly their pork-barrel characteristics.

The reductions must be real and positive.

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