February 20, 1931
I DEEPLY sympathize with the steadfast campaign of American organizations working to bring about international agreements for limiting the manufacture of narcotic drugs and to energize the police power of the several states of this Union to destroy illicit traffic in narcotics.
HERBERT HOOVER
[President of the 4th Conference of Committees of the Affiliated Narcotic Organizations, McAlpin Hotel, New York City]
Note: The message was made public at the conference, meeting in the McAlpin Hotel in New York City.
Herbert Hoover, Message to the World Conference on Narcotic Education. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207321