Proclamation 1496—Thanksgiving Day, 1918
11/15/1918
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We stand at the opening of a new age.
If the future had nothing for us but a new attempt to keep the world at a right poise by a balance of power, the United States would take no...
We are obeying the mandates of humanity.
Good will is the forerunner of trade, and trade is the great amicable instrument of the world on that account.