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Kate Smith performs the 1918 Irving Berlin song God Bless America for the first time ever, on her Armistice Day radio show in the USA. The song will become a hugely popular American patriotic anthem, but its sentiments will so anger folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie that he will write This Land Is Your Land as a riposte.
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