Proclamation 1496—Thanksgiving Day, 1918
11/15/1918
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This flag under which we serve would have been dishonoured had we withheld our hand.
The military masters of Germany denied us the right to be neutral.
Their plan was to throw a broad belt of German military power and political control across the very centre of Europe and beyond the Mediterr...
They are themselves in the grip of the same sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us.