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On the recordApril 12, 1931
If your officers had yielded on this occasion the Red Cross would have been rendered impotent in the face of every future national emergency.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Address to the Annual Convention of the American National Red Cross.

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