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Woodrow Wilson: “This is a treaty not merely for the peoples who were represented at the peace table but for the people who were the…”

On the recordSeptember 17, 1919
This is a treaty not merely for the peoples who were represented at the peace table but for the people who were the subjects of the governments whose wrongs were forever ended by the victory on the fields of France.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the Oakland Civic Auditorium in Oakland, California

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