09/10/1919
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"It will be absolutely necessary that a force be created as a guarantor of the permanency of the settlement so much greater than the force of any nation now engaged or any alliance hitherto formed or p..."
"Right must be based upon the common strength, not upon the individual strength, of the nations upon whose concert peace will depend."
"It is hereby ordered, under authority found in the act of June twenty-one, nineteen hundred and six"
"The necessity for such legislation is manifest and pressing."