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Herbert Hoover: “If your officers had yielded on this occasion the Red Cross would have been rendered impotent in the face of every…”

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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