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Woodrow Wilson: If they do not, we must await with patience and sympathy the awakening and recovery that will assuredly come at last.

On the recordNovember 10, 1918
If they do not, we must await with patience and sympathy the awakening and recovery that will assuredly come at last.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to a Joint Session of Congress Concerning the Terms of Armistice Signed by Germany

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