The President's News Conference
04/23/1931
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Section 598 of the Consular Regulations of 1896 is hereby canceled.
This reduction should be carried out not only by broad general cuts in armaments but by increasing the comparative power...
The campaign will be conducted and managed entirely by Chairman Sanders and the Republican organization.
Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard...