Peace, peace, peace has been the talk of her Foreign Office for now a year and more; not peace upon her own initiative, but upon the initiative of the nations over which she now deems herself to hold the advantage.
Woodrow Wilson: “Peace, peace, peace has been the talk of her Foreign Office for now a year and more; not peace upon her own initiative…”
On the recordJune 13, 1917
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