08/14/1917
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"I would do it as a tribute to the French Republic."
"France deserves the precedence not only because we are meeting in her capital and because she has undergone some of the most tragical sufferings of the war."
"A victory has been won for mankind."
"It is hereby ordered, under authority found in the act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, that the trust or other period of restriction against alienation contained in any patent issued t..."