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Woodrow Wilson: The world did not realize in 1914 that it had come to the final grapple of principle.

On the recordSeptember 23, 1919
The world did not realize in 1914 that it had come to the final grapple of principle.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Princess Theater in Cheyenne, Wyoming

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