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On the recordMay 3, 1931
It is within the power of the businessmen of the world to insist that this problem shall be met with sincerity, with courage, and with constructive action.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Address to the International Chamber of Commerce.

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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.

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The Kellogg-Briand Pact, to which we are all signatories, can only mean that the nations of the world have agreed that they will use their arms solely for defense.

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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.

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