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Show PRESIDENT- FAVORS NATIONAL ALLIANCE ADDRESS BEFORE PEACE LEAGUE REGARDED AS FEELER FOR PEACE ACROSS OCEAN. Declares United States is Ready to Join In Any Feasible Association of Powers to Preserve the Peace of the World. 'Washington. President Wilson declared de-clared here Saturday night before the Ieague to Enforce Peace that the Urjiled States was ready to join in any league association of nations to preserve the peace of the world against "political ambition and selfish sel-fish hostility," and In service of "a common order, a common justice and a common peace." He expressed the hope that the terms of peace which end the present war would include ouch an arrangement. Outlining suggestions for peace, which the president said he hoped the United States would make, If it has opportunity to do so, he included provision pro-vision for absolute freedom of the neas, a contention which has been the keystone of all the diplomatic discussions dis-cussions with Germany and Great Britain, and virtual guarantees of territorial ter-ritorial integrity and political independence. inde-pendence. Officials interpreted the president's address as a preliminary feeler for peace in Europe. He outlined the conditions con-ditions on which the United State? would move if it made a formal mediatory media-tory offer, with the idea, it was understood, under-stood, of learning how such suggestions sugges-tions would he received abroad. "I am sure,"1 said the president, "that the people of the United States would wish their government to move along these lines: "First, such a settlement with regard re-gard to their own immediate interests as the belligerents may agree upon, We have nothing material of any kind to ask for ourselves and are quite bware that we are in no sense or decree de-cree parties to the present quarrel. Our interests are in peace and future guarantees. "Second, a universal association ol the nations to maintain the Inviolate security of the highway of the seas for common and unhindered use of all the nations of the world, and to prevent pre-vent any war begun either contrary to treaty1 covenants or without warning warn-ing and full submission of the causes to the opinion of the world a virtual guarantee of territorial integrity and political independence." The fundamentals of a lasting peace President Wilson said he believed be-lieved were: "First, that every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live. Like other nations," the president said, "we have ourselves, our-selves, no doubt, once and again of-tfended of-tfended against that principle when for a little while controlled toy selfish passion, as our franker historians, ihave been honorable enough to admit; but it has become more and more our rule of life and action. "Second, that the small states of the world have a right to enjoy the Bame respect for their sovereignty and for their territorial integrity that great and powerful nations expect and insist upon. L "And third, that the world has a right to be free from every disturbance disturb-ance of its peace -that has its origin in aggression and disregard of the rights of people and nations." |