Show PRESIDENT FAVORS WORLD ALLIANCE ADDRESS BEFORE PEACE LEAGUE REGARDED AS FEELER FOR PEACE ACROSS OCEAN De declares clarea united states Is id ready heady to join in any feasible association 1 of powers Powe reto to preserve thoi tho peace of bf the world fW washington ashington president wilson de blared here saturday f y night before the league to enforce peace that the tha states was ready rea dy TO join lu any league association of nations to vre preserve serve the peace of the world against political ambition and sel ash hostility and in service of a common order a common justice and a common peace he expressed the hope that the terms of peace which end the present war would include each an arrangement outlining suggestions for peace which the president said he hoped tile the united states would make it if it has opportunity to do so he included provision for absolute freedom of the ideas a contention which has been the keystone of all the diplomatic discussions cui cus with germany and great britain and virtual guarantees of territorial rit orial integrity and political independence pen dence defice officials interpreted the presidents address as a preliminary feeler for in europe he outlined the conditions on which the united states would move it if it made a formal med a offer vit with hilie the lda idea it was under oi of learning how bow such eions would be received abroad 1 I am sure said the president that hat the people of the united states would wish their government to move along these lines i first such a settlement with regard to their own immediate interests as the belligerents may agree upon we have nothing material of any ki kind nd to ask tor for ourselves and are quite aware that we are in no sense or degree parties to the present quarrel our interests are in peace and future guarantees second a universal association of the nations to maintain the inviolate security of the highway of the seas for or common and unhindered use of all the nations ot of the world and to prevent any war begun either contrary to covenants or without warning ing and full submission of the causes to the opinion of the world a virtual guarantee of territorial integrity and political independence the fundamentals of a lasting peace president wilson said he be lieveld were first that every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live like other nations the president said we have ourselves no doubt once and again offended against that principle when tor for a little while controlled by selfish passion as our franker historians have been honorable enough to admit but it has become more and more our rule of life and action second that the small states of the world havo have a right to enjoy the same respect for their sovereignty and for their territorial integrity that great and powerful nations expect and insist upon and third that the world has a right to be free from every disturb dist urb ance of its peace that has its origin in aggression and disregard of the rights of people and nations |