On the record
We know that war had been decreed before the pretext on which it was declared had happened.
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gutenberg.orgCalvin Coolidge: “We know that war had been decreed before the pretext on which it was declared had happened.”
Editor's note · Context
This statement indicates Coolidge's belief that the war was preordained, occurring before any justifiable reasons were presented.
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