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Woodrow Wilson: France deserves the precedence not only because we are meeting in her capital and because she has undergone some of the…

On the recordJanuary 17, 1919
France deserves the precedence not only because we are meeting in her capital and because she has undergone some of the most tragical sufferings of the war.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Remarks at the Opening of the Peace Conference in Paris, France

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