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Guarantees of Peace; Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, Jan. 31, 1918 to Dec. 2, 1918, Together with the Peace Notes to Germany an

Guarantees of Peace; Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, Jan. 31, 1918 to Dec. 2, 1918, Together with the Peace Notes to Germany an

Wilson, Woodrow

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151615854
ISBN13: 9781151615855
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919. Excerpt: ... A PROCLAMATION OF THANKSGIVING FOR VICTORY November 17, 1918) It has long been our custom to turn in the autumn of the year in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us as a nation. This year we have special and moving cause to be grateful and to rejoice. God has in His good pleasure given us peace. It has not come as a mere cessation of arms, a mere relief from the strain and tragedy of war. It has come as a great triumph of right. Complete victory has brought us, not peace alone, but the confident promise of a new day as well, in which justice shall replace force and jealous intrigue among the nations. Our gallant armies have participated in a triumph which is not marred or stained by any purpose of selfish aggsion. In a righteous cause they have won immortal glory and have nobly served their nation in serving mankind. God has indeed been gracious. We have cause for such rejoicing as revives and strengthens in us all the best traditions of national history. A new day shines about us in which our hearts take new courage and look forward with open hope to new and greater duties. While we render thanks for these things, let us not forget to seek the divine guidance in the performance of these duties, and divine mercy and forgiveness for all errors of act or purpose, and pray in all that we do we shall strengthen the ties of friendship and mutual respect upon which we must assist to build the new structure of peace and good will among the nations. Wherefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer and invite the people throughout the land to cease upon that day from their ordinary occupations, ..

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