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Woodrow Wilson: The world must be made safe for democracy.

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Address to a Joint Session of Congress Requesting a Declaration of War Against Germany

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Feb 21, 1921

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It waits with acquiescence, in the first place, for laws which will effectively prohibit and prevent such interlocking of the personnel of the directorates of great corporations—banks and railroads, industrial, commercial and public…

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