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Woodrow Wilson: “Let us be perfectly frank with ourselves and admit that these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered now or at…”

On the recordNovember 10, 1918
Let us be perfectly frank with ourselves and admit that these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered now or at once.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to a Joint Session of Congress Concerning the Terms of Armistice Signed by Germany

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