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Calvin Coolidge: “While this leaves the questions of national defense and limitation of armaments practically where they were, as the…”

On the recordNovember 10, 1928
While this leaves the questions of national defense and limitation of armaments practically where they were, as the negative supports of peace, it discards all threat of force and approaches the subject on its positive side.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Observance of the Tenth Anniversary of the Armistice Under the Auspices of the American Legion in Washington

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