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Woodrow Wilson: The world will be turned back to cynicism if America goes back on it.

On the recordSeptember 14, 1919
The world will be turned back to cynicism if America goes back on it.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at a Luncheon at the Hotel Portland in Portland, Oregon

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