09/03/1919
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"I have been very much touched by the generous terms of the address which you have just read."
"It has been a matter of pride with us that so many men of Italian origin were in our own armies."
"If Germany had waited a single generation, she would have had a commercial empire of the world."
"It is a distinction which I am sure you are conferring upon me as the representative of the great people for whom I speak."