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Woodrow Wilson: “Good will is the forerunner of trade, and trade is the great amicable instrument of the world on that account.”

On the recordDecember 29, 1918
Good will is the forerunner of trade, and trade is the great amicable instrument of the world on that account.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England

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