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Woodrow Wilson: It is for the first time in the history of international transactions an act of systematic justice and not an act of…

On the recordSeptember 3, 1919
It is for the first time in the history of international transactions an act of systematic justice and not an act of grabbing and seizing.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address from Rear Platform in Richmond, Indiana

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