Show FIRST TIME TI IN ONE HUNDRED f t YEARS PRESIDENT DISCUSSED t FOREIGN POLICY IN SENATE SENAT Whether the United States shall enter a world peace league and as many contend thereby abandon its traditional policy of isolation and no alliances were laid squarely square square- ly before congress and the country last Monday by President Wilson n ina Ina in ina a personal address to the senate For the first time in more than a hundred years a president of or the United States appeared In the senate chamber to discuss the nations nation's foreign foreign for tor- eign r relations lations after the manner of Washington Adams and Madison The effect was to leave congress all official quarters and the foreign I diplomats amazed and bewildered Immediately there arose a a. sharp divIsion division division di di- vision of opinion over the propriety as well as the substance of the presidents president's dents dent's proposal The chief points of the presidents president's address were That a lasting peace in Europe can not be bo a a. peace of or victory for foi either side That peace must be followed by a definite concert of ot p power to assure i the world that no catastrophe of war shall overwhelm it again That in su such h a a. concert of ot power the United States cannot withhold its participation to guarantee peace and justice throughout the world That before a peace is made the United States government should frankly formulate the conditions upon which it would feel justified in asking the American people for their formal and solemn adherence It is clear to every man who thinks the president told the senate senate senate sen sen- ate that there is in this his promise no breach In either our traditions or our policy as a nation but a fulfillment rather of all that we have haye professed or striven for I am proposing as it were that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of or President Monroe Monroe Monroe Mon Mon- roe as the doctrine of or the world that n no nation should seek to extend Its policy over over ove any other nation or people but that every people should be left free to determine Its own policy polley Its own wa way of development unhindered unafraid the little along with the great and powerful r |