If these gentlemen could have sat with me reading the dispatches and handling the questions which arise every hour of the twenty-four, they would have known how infinitely difficult it had been to maintain the peace and they would have believed that I was the friend of peace.
Woodrow Wilson: “If these gentlemen could have sat with me reading the dispatches and handling the questions which arise every hour of…”
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Address At Soldiers' Memorial Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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