The magnificent opportunity and the compelling duty now open to us should spur us on to the fulfillment of every opportunity that is calculated to implement this Treaty and to extend the policy which it so nobly sets forth.

Mr. MacDonalds's statement marks a new departure in discussion of naval disarmament.

I congratulate this assembly, the states it represents, and indeed, the entire world upon the coming into force of this additional instrument of humane endeavor to do away with war as an instrument of national policy and to obtain by…

May I ask you who represent governments which have accepted this Treaty, now a part of their supreme law and their most sacred obligations, to convey to them the high appreciation of the Government of the United States that through their…

The Prime Minister has stated clearly and unmistakably the principles on which he is acting.

The American people should understand that current expenditure on strictly military activities of the Army and Navy constitutes the largest military budget of any nation in the world today and at a time when there is less real danger of…

Our whole situation is certainly modified by the Kellogg Pact.

In the matter of Army outlay, I am in agreement with the Secretary of War to set up within the General Staff a commission of leading Army officers to reconsider our whole Army program, to see what services and other outlays have become…

The hope of tax reduction lies in large degree in our ability to economize on the military and naval expenditure and still maintain adequate defense.

We hope to save materially on naval expenditures by international agreement on naval arms.

He removed an untold burden of toil from the backs of men and women for all time.

BY INVENTING the electric lamp Mr. Edison did vastly more than provide a new lamp.