Herbert Hoover: “Worldwide depressions and their result in unemployment are like great wars.”

We cannot restore employment in the United States by these methods.

We have no desire for offensive armament.

I propose the adoption of the presentation already made at the Geneva Conference for the abolition of all tanks, all chemical warfare, and all large mobile guns.

The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhelming burden of armament which now lies upon the toilers of the world.