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Woodrow Wilson: “The immediate need of this country and of the world is peace not only, but settled peace, peace upon a definite and…”

On the recordSeptember 17, 1919
The immediate need of this country and of the world is peace not only, but settled peace, peace upon a definite and well-understood foundation.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at a Luncheon at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California

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