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Woodrow Wilson: I suggest to my fellow-countrymen that the circles around their Christmas trees will be incomplete unless, mingled with…

On the recordDecember 12, 1920
I suggest to my fellow-countrymen that the circles around their Christmas trees will be incomplete unless, mingled with their own expectant children, they shall visualize some of the waifs of Central Europe.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Written Address to the Nation on Relief of Starving Children in Europe

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