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Show PRESIDENT FAVORS WORLOALLIANCE ADDRESS BEFORE PEACE LEAGUE REGARDED AS FEELER FOR PEACE ACROSS OCEAN. Declares United States is Ready to Join in Any Feasible Association of Powers to Preserve the Peace of the World. Washington. President Wilson declared de-clared here Saturday night before the League to Enforce Peace that the l'nited States w.13 ready to join in any league association of nations to preserve the peace of the world against "political ambition and selfish sel-fish 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 such an arrangement. Outlining suggestions for peace, which the president said he hoped the United States would make, If It has opportunity to do so, he Included provision pro-vision for absolute freedom of the seas, a contention which has been the keystone of all the diplomatic discussions dis-cussions with Germany and Great Britain, and virtual guarantees of territorial ter-ritorial Integrity and political Independence. Inde-pendence. Officials Interpreted the president's address as a preliminary feeler for peace In Europe. He outlined the conditions con-ditions on which the United States would move If it made a formal mediatory media-tory offer, with the idea. It was understood, under-stood, of learning how such suggestions sugges-tions would be received abroad. "I am sure," said the president, "that the people of the United States would wish their government to move along these lines: "First, such a settlement with regard re-gard to their own immediate interests I as the belligerents may agree upon. I We have nothing material of any kind j to ask for ourselves and are quite ! aware that we are In no sense or degree de-gree 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 common and unhindered use of all the nations of the world, and to prevent pre-vent any war begun either contrary to treaty covenants or without warning warn-ing and full submission of the causes to tho opinion of the world a virtual guarantee of territorial integrity and I political Independence." Tho fundamentals of a lasting peace President Wl'son said ho believed be-lieved were: "First, that every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall livo. Like other nations," tho president said, "we havo ourselves, our-selves, no doubt, once anil again offended of-fended against that principle when 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 tho world havo a right to enjoy the same respect for their sovereignty and for their territorial Integrity that great and powerful nations expect aud insist upon. "And third, that the world has a right to bo free from every disturbance disturb-ance of its pence, that has Its origin in aggression and disregard of the rights of peoplo and nations." ' |