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Woodrow Wilson: “Without the covenant of the League of Nations there may be as many secret treaties as ever, to destroy the confidence of…”

On the recordJanuary 7, 1920
Without the covenant of the League of Nations there may be as many secret treaties as ever, to destroy the confidence of governments in each other.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Letter Read at the Jackson Day Dinner

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