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Woodrow Wilson: It is now our liberty and our duty to keep our promise to the people of those islands by granting them the independence…

On the recordDecember 6, 1920
It is now our liberty and our duty to keep our promise to the people of those islands by granting them the independence which they so honorably covet.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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8th Annual Message

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