The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-23
PRESIDENT PUTS
u S. IN WORLD
PEACE PACT
Mould Throw Monroe Doctrine
Around the Globe
PEACE MUST Be PERMANENT
American People, in Duty Bound TO
Assist in Establishment of
Universal Justice.

Washington, Jan. 23.-Whether OF
| not the United States shall enter a
worlds peace league and. as many
| contend. thereby abandon its tradition
al policy of isolation and no entan.
Cling alliances, was laid squaTely be
| fore Congress and the country yester.
day by President Wilson in personal
| address to the Senate.
For the first time in more than
100 years president Of the United
States, appeared in the Senate cham.
Der to discuss the nations foreign re-
lations, after the manner of Wash
ngton, Adams and Madison. The ef-
feet was to leave Congress. all official
quarters an dthe foreign diplomats
amazed and bewildered.
Immediately there arose sharp
division of opinion over the propriety
as we'll as the substance of the presi-
dents proposal. Startling" "stagger-
ing" astounding" the "noblest
utterance that has fallen from human
lips since the Declaration of lnde-
pendence," were among the express
ions of senators.
The president himself, after his ad-
dress said: Il have said what every
body has been longing for, but has
thought impossible. Now it appears
to be possible.
Copies of his address had previous
ly been forwarded to American diplo-
mats in all the belligerent countries
for the information of the foreign Of
fees, and were being prepared for re-
representatives. of neutral governments
at Washington.
The main points made in the presi-
dents address follow:
Peace must be followed by some
concert of power which will make 1t
virtually impossible that any such
catastrophe should ever overwhelm
US again.
Il address you TO disclose to you
the duty of our government in the
days when it will be necessary to
lay afresh and upon new plan the
foundation of peace among the ma
tions.
"The people of the United States
cannot in honor withhold the service
to which they are about to be chal-
lenged to add their authority and
their power to the authority and
force of other nations TO guarantee
peace and justice throughout the
world
"The treaties and agreements
which bring this war to an end must
embody terms that will create a
T.. A,.tl nryf In nd
guaranteeing-that will win the APP
proval of mankind-not merely
peace that will serve the aim of the
nations engaged.
1--WE shall have voice in deter
mining whether those terms shall be
made lasting or not by the guaran
tees of a universal covenant.
"Our judgment upon what is fun
damental and essential as condi-
tion precedent to permanency should
be spoken now.
"a force must be created as guar.
antor of the permanency of the set
tlement so much greater than the
force of any nation now engaged or
any alliance hitherto formed or
projected that no nation, or prob
able combination of nations, could
withstand it.
There must be not balance of
power but community of power.
'It must be a peace without vic
tory.
"The equality of nations, upon
which peace must be founded, must
be an equality of right.
mo peace can last which does not
realize that no right anywhere ex-
lists to hand peoples about from
sovereignty to sovereignty as if they
were property.
Il take it for granted that there
should be a united, independent and
autonomous Poland.
Every great people now strug-
Cling toward a full development of
its resources and of its powers should
be assured a direct outlet to the
great highways of the sea-
"The paths of the sea must alike
in law and in fact be free.
There can be no sense of safety
and equality among the nations II
great preponderating armaments are
| henceforth to continue here and there
to be built up and maintained.
Il am proposing that the nations
| should with one accord adopt the doc
trine of President Monroe as the doc
| trine of the world.
There is no entangling alliance in
/ a concert of powers"
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