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On the recordSeptember 8, 1919
To hear some gentlemen you would think it was an arrangement for the inconvenience of the United States, whereas, as a matter of fact, my fellow citizens, it is a world settlement, the first ever attempted.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at the University of Minnesota Armory in Minneapolis

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