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Show WIL80N SEES NO DANGER OF MILITARISM Washington, May 8. Hopo that at tho end of tho present war tho nations of tho world would undertake under-take n Joint effort to keep tho peace backed by a common pollco force, wns expressed by President Wilson today In an Interview with n committee com-mittee of tho American Union Against Militarism which cabled to protest against his preparedness program pro-gram and advlso him that they had found a fear of militarism In the country west of the Allcghcutcs. The President told his callers that a helpless nation would bo negligible negligi-ble In n confcrcnco to establish the foundations for peaco. Ho said that thero was a difference between preparedness pre-paredness and militarism, that tho country v. as in no danger of tho latter, lat-ter, and In response to a question, declared that compulsory military training was not contrary to American Ameri-can tradition. Tho committee Insisted that on account ac-count of his ofllao tho Priesthood most frequently nddrcssed audiences from the upper classes nnd that tho response ho received upon tho proposal pro-posal to Increase the military wero misleading him as to tho true sentiment sen-timent of the country. |