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On the recordFebruary 1, 1916
I have seen editorials written in more than one part of the United States sneering at the number of notes that were being written from the State Department to foreign Governments, and asking, 'Why does not the Government act?'
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at Convention Hall in Kansas City, Missouri

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