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Show PRESIDENT URGES PEACE PARLEY SUGGESTS AVOWAL OF VIEWS AS TO TERMS UPON WHICH WAR MIGHT BE CONCLUDED. Notes are Dispatched to All Warring Powers, But President Makes it Understood Un-derstood He Is Not Proposing Peace Nor Offering Mediation. Washington. President Wilson has appealed to all the belligerents to discuss dis-cuss terms of peace. Without actually proposing peace or offering mediation, the president has sent formal notes to the governments of all the warring nations suggesting that "an early occasion ibe sought to call out from the nations now at war such an avowal of their respective views as to the terms upon which the war might be concluded and the arrangements ar-rangements which would be deemed satisfactory as a guaranty against its renewal or the kindling of any similar conflict in the future, as would make it possible frankly to compare them." Wholly without notice and entirely contrary to what administration officials offi-cials have described as his course, the president Wednesday dispatched the notes to all the belligerents and to all the neutrals for their information. informa-tion. Summarized in the president's own words as contained in the notes, his attitude is as follows: "The president is not proposing peace; he is not even offering mediation. media-tion. He Is merely proposing that soundings be taken in order that we may learn, the neutral nations with the belligerent, how near the haven of peace muy be for which all mankind man-kind longs with an intense and increasing in-creasing longing. He believes that the spirit in which he speaks and the objects which he seeks will be understood under-stood by all concerned, and he confidently confi-dently hopes for a response which will bring a new light into the affairs of the world." |