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Show WHAT AMERICA M 111 THE WAR i f ; Commencing December S, the Four-minute Four-minute men of the United States, who dwell in those fortunate places which are delivered from the epidemic will go to the task of explaining" "what have we won." In announcing to congress the signing sign-ing of the armistice, President Wilson said: "Everything for which America has fought has been accomplished." "During tho next seven days the Four-Minute men of the government! will devote their speches to reviewing review-ing the war aims of America and to demonstrating just how those aims were accomplished when the enemies and the allied powers agreed to base the future world peace on America's war aims as expressed in the famous fnnrfoon nnlnte -F T. nnnnr O t fil O I.. wv,vu iJuiuio ut iiouuaij o, J.UJ.O, III the subsequent four fundamental principles prin-ciples of February 11th and in the four summary paragraphs of July 4th. The bulletin of information sent out from National headquarters of Four-Minute Four-Minute men in Washington is entitled "What Have We Won?" and goes into the subject of American influence on world peace very thoroughly. "America's contribution was not merely furnishing the forco that turned turn-ed the tide of battle at Chateau Thierry; Thi-erry; it was .in furnishing forces that draw from the past and reach into the future." The bulletin continues to define de-fine these forces in the following manner: man-ner: "The United States, as tho eldest of democracies, gave first impulse to the movement which in the last hundred hund-red years has spread throughout the world and which within a few swift frceks has swept the last of the abso- lute monarchs from their thrones. "America first declared the doctrine that all men are created free anc equal in their citizenship, which has been the seed and ferment of democracy. democ-racy. "America first declared that governments govern-ments derive their just powers fron: the consent of the governed, which all the world today acknowledges to be the only sound basis. "The United States first proclaimed the doctrine that conquest by a foreign for-eign power upon any part of this continent con-tinent would be an offense againsl this government. That doctrine, amplified am-plified by a long line of American presidents, has led the world's though! to the present day belief, acknowledged acknowledg-ed everywhere, that every state has the right to work out its own destiny. That is now recognized throughoul the world as the only sound basis for international law." The Four-Minute men will traco the development of the Monroe Doctrine to its complete culmination in a basis upon which will bo built the future peace of the world, which basis has been abbreviated by its author intc a single sentence: "The Reign of Law, Based on the Consent of the Governed, Sustained by Organized Opinion of Mankind." These three principles are fundamental funda-mental in the American democracy; they are now fated to become fundamental funda-mental in that world democracy which America's blood and might have helped help-ed to secure. oo |
