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Woodrow Wilson: “The task of those who are gathered here, or will presently be gathered here, to make the settlements of this peace is…”

On the recordDecember 20, 1918
The task of those who are gathered here, or will presently be gathered here, to make the settlements of this peace is greatly simplified by the fact that they are masters of no one; they are the servants of mankind.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Remarks at the University of Paris

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