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Woodrow Wilson: “We engage in the first sentence of Article X to respect and preserve from external aggression the territorial integrity…”

On the recordSeptember 3, 1919
We engage in the first sentence of Article X to respect and preserve from external aggression the territorial integrity and the existing political independence not only of the other member States, but of all States.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Coliseum at the State Fair Grounds in Indianapolis, Indiana

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