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Woodrow Wilson: To hear some gentlemen you would think it was an arrangement for the inconvenience of the United States, whereas, as a…

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

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Address at the University of Minnesota Armory in Minneapolis

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