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Woodrow Wilson: The thing that Germany attempted, if it had succeeded, would have set the civilization of the world back a hundred…

On the recordSeptember 16, 1919
The thing that Germany attempted, if it had succeeded, would have set the civilization of the world back a hundred years.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at a Luncheon at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California

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