Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-28
OUTLINES TERMS
WHICH HE HOPES
WILL END THIS WAR
Includes Provision for All
solute Freedom of
the Seas.
URGES NEW AND MORE
WHOLESOME DIPLOMACY
Suggests Virtual Guarantees Of
Territorial Integrity and Po- !,
litical independence.
UNITED STATES READY TO ACT
UNITED STATES READY TO AoT
President Makes Significant Address
Before League to Enforce
Peace.

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WASHINGTON, May 27.--Presidert
Wilson declared here tonight before
the League to Enforce Peace that the
United States was ready to join in any
feasible association of nations to pre-
serve the peace Of the world against
political ambition and selfish hos
tility." and in service of "a common
order. n common Justice and a COM
mon peace" He expressed the hope
that the terms Of peace which end the
war would include such an arrange
ment.
Outlining suggestions for peace.
which the President said he hoped the
United States would make if 1t had op.
portuntty to do SO, he included pro-
vision for absolute freedom OF the seas
a contention which has been the key
stone of all the diplomatic discussions
| with Germany and Great Britain and
virtual guarantees OF territorial In
tegrity and political Independence
II am sure" said the President that
the people of the United States would
wish their government to move along
these lines: M
First, such settlement with re-
gard to their own immediate interests
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 par
ties to the present quarrel. Our In
terest is only in peace. and It's future
guarantees.
Second. a universal association of
the nations to maintain the inviolate
security OF the highway OF the seas
Tor the common and unhindered use
of all the nations OF the world, and to
hoo
to treaty covenants or without warming
and full submission of the causes to
the opinion of the world-a virtual
guarantee of territorial integrity and
political independence"
OUTLINES FUNDAMENTALS
OF A LASTING PEACn
The fundamentals Of lasting peace,
President Wilson said. he believed were:
First. that every people has a right
10 choose the sovereignty under which
they shall live. Like other nations"
the President said. I'VE have ourselves
no doubt once and again offended
against that principle when for a little
while controlled by selfish passion, as
our franker historians have been hon-
orable enough to admit; but it has be-
come more and more our rule of life
| and action.
Second. that the small states OF
tho world have right to enjoy the
same respect for their sovereignty and
for their territorial integrity that great
and powerful nations expect and In
sist upon. -e
And third. that the world has a
right TO be free from every disturb
| ance of its peace that has It's origin In
| aggression and disregard of tho rights
OF peoples and nations" ,T
Tl,Ia
war the President said, had been that
the peace OF the world must henceforth
depend upon "a new and more whole
some diplomacy" -
IF this war has accomplished noth.
ing else for the benefit of the world"
he said. lit has at least disclosed a
great moral necessity and set forward
the thinking OF the statesmen of the
| world by a whole age. Repeated utter
ances OF the leading statesmen OF most
| OF the great nations now engaged N
war have made 1T plain that their
| thought has come TO this: that the
| principle Of public right must hence
! forth take precedence over the indi-
Fidual interests of particular nations,
and that the nations of the world must
| in some way band themselves together
TO see that that right prevails as
that henceforth alliance must not be
set up against alliance. understanding
against understanding, but that there
must be common agreement for
| common object. and that at the heart
or that common object must lie tho
| inViolable rights OF peoples and OF
mankind"
WILLING TO BECOME PARTNER
IN ANY FEASIBLE ASSOCIATION
$50 sincerely do we believe in these
things" said the President. In con-.
clusion, that 1 am sure that speak
the mind and wish of the people OF
America when I say that the United
States is willing to become a partner
in any feasible association OF nations
| formed in order to realize these OBJ.
jects and make them secure against
violation"
The President told his hearers he hGd
not come to discuss program. but
| only to avow a creed and give express
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