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Woodrow Wilson: The whole world is at war because the whole world is in the grip of that power and is trying out the great battle which…

On the recordJune 13, 1917
The whole world is at war because the whole world is in the grip of that power and is trying out the great battle which shall determine whether it is to be brought under its mastery or fling itself free.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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