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Woodrow Wilson: “We are the sincere friends of the German people and earnestly desire to remain at peace with the Government which speaks…”

On the recordFebruary 2, 1917
We are the sincere friends of the German people and earnestly desire to remain at peace with the Government which speaks for them.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Severance of Diplomatic Relations with Germany

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