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Woodrow Wilson: “I believe, my fellow countrymen, that the only people in Europe who instinctively realized what was going to happen and…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 1919
I believe, my fellow countrymen, that the only people in Europe who instinctively realized what was going to happen and what did happen in 1914 was the French people.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the University of Minnesota Armory in Minneapolis

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