Address at the Coliseum in Des Moines, Iowa
09/05/1919
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We are not the enemies of the German people and that they are not our enemies.
Look how things stand.
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...
We are ready to plead at the bar of history, and our flag shall wear a new lustre.