The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-06-01
OUR INTEREST ONLY PEACE
AND FREEDOM OF THE SEAS


Settle Forever Contention Which Has
Been Keynote Of All Diplomatic Dis
cushions With Germany and Great
Brltain.-Want Virtual Guarantee OF
Territorial Integrity and Political
Independence.
Washington.-Preside Wilson de-
:lared here before the League to En-
force Peace, that the United States
was ready to join in any feasible as
sociation of nations to preserve the
peace of the world against political
ambition and selfish hostility" and in
service of "a common order, a com
mon justice, and a common peace"
He expressed the hope that the
terms of peace which end the wa
would include such an arrangement.
Absolute Freedom Of the Seas.
Outlining suggestions for peace,
which the President said he hoped
the United States would make if it
had opportunity to do so, he included
provision for absolute freedom of the
seas, a contention which has been the
keystone of all the diplomatic discus.
sions with Germany and Great Brit
ain; and virtual guarantees of terri
torial integrity and political indie
pendence.
Officials interpreted the President's
address as a preliminary feeler for
peace in Europe. He outlined the
conditions on which the United States
would move If 1T made a formal med
iatory offer with the idea, it was I'M
derstood, of learning how such sug-
gestions would be received abroad.
II am sure" said the President,
that the people of the United States
would wish their government to move
along these lines:
Peace Only, and Its Future Guaran-
tees.
First, such a settlement with re-
gard to their own immediate inter
ests as the belligerents may agree
upon. We have nothing material of
any kind to ask for ourselves, and
are quite aware that we are in no
sense or degree parties to the present
quarrel. Our interests is only in
peace, and it's future guarantees.
Universal Association of Nations.
Second, an universal association
of the nations to maintain the invio-
late security of the highway Of the
seas for the common and unhindered
use of all the nations of the world,
and to prevent any war begun either
contrary to treaty covenants or with
out warning and full submission Of
the causes to the opinion of the
world-a virtual guarantee of terri
torial integrity and political indie
pendence."
The Fundamentals Of Lasting Peace.
The fundamentals of a lasting
peace, President Wilson said he be-
Heved we're:
First, that every people has a
right to chose the sovereignty under
which they shall live. Like other
Nations" the President said, 1--WE
have ourselves no doubt once and
again offended against that principle
which for a little while controlled by
selfish passion, as our franker histor-
ians 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 have 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,
ance of it's peace and that it's origin
in aggression and disregard of. the
rights of people and nations"
In full the President spoke as fol-
lows:
Desire Of the Whole World Turns to
Peace.
when the invitation to be here to-
night came to me, l was glad to &C.
cept it-not because it offered me an
opportunity to discuss the program
of the league-that you will, I am
sure, not expect of me-but because
the desire of the whole world now
turns eagerly, more and more eager
ly, towards the hope of peace, and
there is Just reason why we should