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On the recordAugust 18, 1919
There is hardly a single raw material, a single important foodstuff, a single class of manufactured goods which is not in the same case.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Remarks to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate

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