The President's News Conference
06/13/1929
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All bombing planes to be abolished.
The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhelming burden of armam...
I propose that the arms of the world should be reduced by nearly one-third.
Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard 'police component.'