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Woodrow Wilson: “Europe was full of people under the iron and relentless hand of military power, and that hand has been removed and…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 1919
Europe was full of people under the iron and relentless hand of military power, and that hand has been removed and crushed.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the Spokane Armory in Spokane, Washington

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