A century ago today, President Woodrow Wilson, convinced that the war in Europe must be stopped before it destroys civilization, calls on both sides to halt the fighting and join a conference sponsored by the neutral United States to work out an equitable peace.
January 20, 1917 – Peace without Victory
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