Show PRESIDENT FAVORS WORLD ALLIhN GE ADDRESS BEFORE PEACE LEAGUE REGARDED AS FEELER FOR PEACE ACROSS OCEAN declare united slate states li Is ready to join in any feasible association Aoel atlon tf of power powers to preserve Pre erve the peace of the world washington president wilson declared here saturday night before the league to enforce peace that the united states was reedy ready to join joli in jr adv league association of nations to preserve the peace of the corll dinst political ambition and eel set fish hostility and in service of a common order a common justice and a common peace he lie expressed the hope that the term terms of peace which alch end the present war would include such an arrangement outlining suggestions for peace which t ta president said be hoped the united states would make 1 I it hast opportunity to do eo so he Inc included ludd pro vision 11 for absolute freedom of the seas a contention which has been the keystone of all the diplomatic discussions cus with germany and great britain and virtual guarantee of territorial rit orial integrity and political independence pen dence officials interpreted the presidents address as a preliminary feeler for peace in europe he ile outlined the con dillons on which the united states state would move if it made a formal offer with the idea it understood of learning how such eions would be recel rm abroad 1 I am sure said the president that the people ot of the united states would wish their government to more move long along these lines first such a setU settlement ement with re ard ird to their own immediate interests ir i the belligerents may agree upon we have nothing mater lut of any kind to ask for ourselves and are quite aware that we are la in no sense or degree gree parties to the present quarrel our interests are la in peace and future guarantees second a universal association of the nations to maintain the inviolate security ot of the highway of the seas bor or common end unhindered ise of all the ot of tle world and to pro tent any war begun either contrary la to treaty covenants or warning and id full submission of the causes to the opinion of the world a virtual guarantee e of territorial integrity and political independence the fundamentals of a lasting peace resident alon said he believed were first that every people has hat a right to choose the under which they shall live like other nations the president said we have our elve no doubt once and again of fended against that principle when for a little while controlled by selfish passion as our franker historians have been enough to admit but it baa las become more and more air rule of life ilfe and action second that tl small states of ol 01 the world have a right to enjoy the same respect for or their and for or their territorial int integrity arity thai that great and po 90 jarful erful options expect and anc insist tl and third that the world has i a right to be free iron fron every disturb ance once ot of its lt peace that has his its origin in agg avion and disregard u ut the rights of people and nit nations lons |