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Show wiLsorrs words ARE EGHOED II HOII0S It Is the Voice of a Statesman States-man Whose Vision Comprehends Com-prehends the World, Says London News. t ADDRESS IS GIVEN MUCH PROMINENCE "Modern Democracy Has Found Its Prophet," According Ac-cording to EI Diario, Buenos Aires. LONDOX, Dec. 5. President Wilson's Wil-son's message to congress has the fullest possible prominence in the fronting newspapers, but it reached London too late for much comment. The Daily News receives warmly the presktout's declaration that peace should be based on generosity and justice to the- exclusion exclu-sion of selfish claims. It adds: "It would be affectation to pretend 1 hat this language echoes the declara- tions of the European spokesmen of the alliance. It is the voicfe of a statesman j "whose vision comprehends the world, while theirs comprehends only half ai world. ! If President Wilson could have said; earlier what he said yesterday and if in (ireat Britain, France and Italy the re-i sponsible leaders had made his language! their own, Russia might be today driv-1 ing the enemies "from her borders. It may be too late to convince Russia of the identity of aim of herself and the allied democracies, but it must not be loo late for those democracies to learn from their greatest representative how democracies should comport themselves in war and how they should attain peace. Slate Must Be Clear. "In the light of President "Wilson's speech a statement that will mean the wiping off the slate of much that should never have been written on it is imperative. im-perative. There is no kinship between j the spirit of yesterday's speech and the spirit, of knock out hiows or economic warfare or al'ter-thc-tvar boycotts." The Times says there are no halftones half-tones in the president's address, adding: "There are 110 ambiguous phrases on which militarists mav feed the illusions of (heir dupes, no hints of compromise Mud no .suggestion of faltering or doubt t" raise the spirits of the pacific with this straightforward and logir-nl' statement of America's war aims the last hopo of the pacifists must founder. ' ' The Times reiterates that formally it expressed dissent with President Wilson Wil-son 's distinction between the German people and their rulr and savs it can no more distinguish between tliem than the president can only distinguish between be-tween Uormany and Austria -Hungary, believing them willing accomplices of their ruler. Lofty in Spirit. The Daily (Jniphic says: "Whether this restatement, so lofty in spirit, so forward looking in effect, will 'have any influence on Cierman opinion opin-ion is doubtful. Then the only resort is 1 toinffiet such a military defeat upon Germany as to convince the Germans of the fn famousness of their rulers, hi this connection it is an excellent omen that the conference in Paris reached such a complete Unanimity. America was represented at the conference and there follows that the war aims of the i allies no longer can be described in any sense as imperialistic. ' ' None of the editorials dwells especially espec-ially on the request for a declaration of war against Austria-Hungary, but brief references implv that it is regarded as logical and desirable. Independence Beige, a Belgian news' paper published here, considers President Presi-dent Wilson's messaee "one of the rare documents of which history will keep an imperishable memory." Champion of Justice. The newspaper says President Wilson Wil-son remains a fearless and reproachless champion of justice integral justice applied to all, friend and foe, and that in proclaiming the fundamental principle prin-ciple of human morality the president proves he is one of those aide to place themselves above the battlefield and is fit to play the role of arbiter in the great struggle between the nations of the world. The newspaper thinks that If the message mes-sage be submitted to tho peoples of the central powers and the text not mutilated muti-lated as the president's previous message mes-sage was, the peace idea will be seriously seri-ously advanced, " because the German people are too intelligent not to realize that none but Mr. Wilson 's formula will be able to secure a durable peace." Doom of Prussianism. The S-tanclarrt says: "President Wilson's speech means the doom of prussianism and ail it stands for." The Tall Mall Gazette eays: "The president's decision to declare war on Austria for the purpose of break-ins? break-ins? Hie vassalage to the German government govern-ment and his declaration that peace must eive freedom to the peoples of the Balkans Bal-kans and Turkey is the most direct ap-Droach ap-Droach to a practical handling of the muddle of the eastern question yet made Tjy nny allied statesman." "The evening newspapers, almost with- out exception, regard a.s the most Important Im-portant points of a practical nature in President Wilson's speech his desire to declare war against Austria-Hungary and the aim of the United States to free the people of the Balkans and other states from Prussianism. "The intention of the United States to free the peoples from Prussian military and commercial autocracy," says the Westminster Gazette, "is a timely intimation inti-mation to the politicians In Berlin, who are speculating on the possibility of a deal between the east and the west which shall give them a free hand over Russia and eastern Europe on condition that they renounce their aggressions in the : west. We should like to see this inti- j mation put in the form of a joint 1 declaration by the allies and Issued In the 1 name of them nil." The Globe says President Wilson's ad- ! dress "Comes as a purifying breeze from the new world to the old." Referring- to President Wilson's defini- tion of the German power which must be crushed or shut out from the friendly intercourse of nations, the Globe says: j "No more direct utterance has been vouchsafed to the belligerents since the war began." j |