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Herbert Hoover: The Kellogg-Briand Pact, to which we are all signatories, can only mean that the nations of the world have agreed that…

On the recordJune 21, 1932
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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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on Instructions to the United States Delegation to the General Disarmament Conference

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