Williams news., 1916-12-28
PRESIDENTS PEACE NOTEA A DOCUMENT
 OF TREMENDOUS HISTORIC IMPORTANCE
United States Takes Initial Step End the Most Horrible Monstrous Tragedy of All Tme-Presdent Wilson Urges Early Avowal of Terms by All Nations Now at War

United States Takes Initial Step to End the MGs Horrible and Early Avowai of Terms s1b by All
 Peparmen ef State Washington p 6 Psa Dec 1916 M % s s s gn @ affairs of m to Theh you a gard the which he hopes his S s o friendly spirit and coming not only from friend but as com have been most seriously affected by whose for it's % ose ut oi Se Way
 Note in Nowise Prompted by Germany's Plea
 The suggestion which instructed to make the Pes fas @ been prompted by the overtures of the and the ~ouid ESs the question of and best be considered in % with H 5e wsh @ ay h be end
 ered entirely it's merits and if had been made in
 The President that early be sought is @ to tHe which the be concluded and the which would be deemed of sns conflict in compish his He would be happy to initiative in it's accomplishment in that might or the One way acceptable to him He takes the liberty of calling that objects which the statesmen of on both sides era terms to their people and to the % word Each side small states as secure against aggression the rights privileges of the great and powerful states Each wishes itself to be made in the future along with all other nations and people against the of of ny knd Each would be the M an % e formation of league o nations to insure peace ana usce
 Before step be taken however each deems terms which will certainly safeguard the independence the territory integrity and political and commercial freedom o the the the future peace of world the people Government of the United States
 
 war Their in the means M to be opt of and violence quick and ardent that of cooperate accomplishment is with influence and at their command But the war must first be concluded
 The terms which to be concluded they not at liberty suggest but the President does feel that it his right and his duty point out their intimate interest in it's conclusion lest 1t should presently be too late to accomplish the greater things which lie beyond its conclusion lest the situation of nolerable and lest than M injury be done Suggests Immediate Comparison by Warning
 The President therefore feels altogether justified in which precede arrangements the of the world which all desire and in which the nauGn as well as those at war are ready to play helr proceed towards ends slow attron until the bgerents the other is exhausted million after million of human lives must are no more to offer resenmen must be kndled that cool and from which there can be ling people will be rendered vain "''''S
 The life the entire world has profoundly affected Every of the great family of mankind has felt the burden and the terror this contest No nation in the civilized Mord can be said truth to stand stand oude M its concrete objects for which being waged have never
 he leaders of the beligeren have, has been said stated those objects in general terms Bu stated gen the authoritative spokesmen of either side prescribed the ob ects which, obtained would satisfy them and their people what definite efforts what actual exchanges