08/18/1919
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"We know only that this tragical war, whose consuming flames swept from one nation to another until all the world was on fire, is at an end and that it was the privilege of our own people to enter it a..."
"The arbitrary power of the military caste of Germany which once could secretly and of its own single choice disturb the peace of the world is discredited and destroyed."
"If they do not, we must await with patience and sympathy the awakening and recovery that will assuredly come at last."
"Let us be perfectly frank with ourselves and admit that these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered now or at once."