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Show SERBi mission 15 GISTSJ-SEMS Envoys Express Firm Belief in Final Victory for the Entente Allies. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. The Serbian mission was received by the senate today. to-day. Dr. Vesniteh, head of the rflission, praised the attitude of Jhc United States voiced unalterable faith that this country would "lead the nations of tho world unto the mountain of perfect per-fect peace and become the arbiter of them all," and offered to the American people "the heartfelt gratitude of a small, but of an honest nation.'1 Dr. Vesniteh said Serbia accepted with enthusiasm tho doctrine of Monroe as the dceiriue of the world and was happy to be permitted to share the be- lief thnt right shall command might and that it cught not to be dishonored in its very inception. More than any-body, any-body, he said, Serbians believed that peace cannot subsist without justice, without liijftv and righteousness. "The Serbian nation with their kinsman, kins-man, the Croats and Slovenese, " he r-aid. "have suffered in this war more than any other nation. We have fought for our liberties as bravely as anyone of our gallant allies. "We too believe with you, Mr. President Presi-dent of the senate, we too have faith todav that the morning light will break in this good year at hand. We too have , in this solemn hour a vision and we voice our unalterable faith that this magnificent republic is to lead the nations na-tions of the world unto the mountain of perfect peace and to become the arbiter of them all. - "When in the service of these ideals The allied governments, the allied sailors sail-ors and soldiers, the' civilians and women, will have put . forth all their energies when in a co-ordinated and strongly cemented unity of all our forces, of all our war aims and of all our thoughts, re win this fight and we must win it, unless we are all to be crushed in siavorv by the Prussian heel." |