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It is an outrage, Colonel Woolford, to attempt to deceive these people by such statements.
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Adlai Stevenson
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gutenberg.orgAdlai Stevenson: “It is an outrage, Colonel Woolford, to attempt to deceive these people by such statements.”
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Stevenson condemns attempts to mislead the audience with false statements about the past.
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