Herbert Hoover: “I wish to express my appreciation of your kind suggestion.”

We must make headway against the mutual fear and friction arising out of war armament which kill human confidence throughout the world.

While these features in the Wagner and the Garner bills are not in the form and are not as well safeguarded as they should be, they are in line with major objectives I have been advocating.

I earnestly hope that this may be done.

It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national-forest status which have hitherto not had such status, nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status.