Abstract

Editorials

Highly encouraging are U.S. President Herbert Hoover's Memorial Day speech, Secretary Henry Stimson's clear statement as to the burden upon all Americans of the naval program, and the press reports that the President is determined to move at once for genuine disarmament, he forfeited his Sunday holiday in order to work on the problem. It can not be denied if one could that there were in his Arlington address some of those weasel words with which every American statesman finds it necessary to embellish his sentiments whenever he ventures timidly toward peace. In the presence of so many veterans, Hoover found it necessary to repeat the old falsehoods that the armaments are merely for defense; that it must have a "just preparedness for the protection of our peoples," as if people had not lived more than a century of their national life in happiness and safety with no preparedness at all.