Address at Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England
12/29/1918
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
The right to withdraw from the league was not expressly recognized.
Pardon me, Mr. Chairman, if I have been entirely unreserved and plain-spoken in speaking of the great matters we all have so much at heart.
We cannot afford to lose a single summer's day by not doing all that we can to mitigate the winter's suffering.
There can be no easy or normal industrial credits because there can be no confident or permanent revival of business.