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Calvin Coolidge: It seems clear that it is the reduction of armies rather than of navies that is of the first importance to the world at…

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It seems clear that it is the reduction of armies rather than of navies that is of the first importance to the world at the present time.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge highlights the significance of reducing land armies over naval forces for global stability.

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