Address from Rear Platform in Richmond, Indiana
09/03/1919
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Look how things stand.
This flag under which we serve would have been dishonoured had we withheld our hand.
Their plan was to throw a broad belt of German military power and political control across the very centre of Europe and beyond the Mediterr...
They are themselves in the grip of the same sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us.