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difference in what way and upon what
terms it is ended. The treaties and
agreements which bring it to an end
must embody terms which will create
a peace that is worth guaranteeing
and preserving, a peace that Will Wln
the approval Of mankind, not merely
a peace that will serve the several IN
terests and immediate aims Of tie
voice in determining what those
terms shall be, but we shall, | feel
sure, have a voice in determining
whether they shall be made lasting
or not by the guarantees OF unit
versal covenant: and our judgm III
upon what is fundamental and essen
tial as condition precedent to peg
manency should be spoken now, noJ
afterwards, when it may Be too late.
New World.
''No covenant of cooperative peace
that does not include the peoples OF
the new world can suffice to keep
the future safe against war; and Yet
there is only one sort of peace that
the peoples of America could join In
guaranteeing. The elements of that
peace must be elements that engage
the confidence and satisfy the prin-
ciples of the American governments,
elements consistent with their polltl-
cal faith and the practical convic-
tions which the peoples of America
have once for all embraced and un-
dertaken to defend.
81 do not mean to say that any
American government would throw
any obstacles in the way Of any terms
of peace the governments now at war
might agree upon, or seek to upset
them when made, whatever they might
be. l only take it for granted that
mere terms of peace between the bel
ligerents will not satisfy even the
belligrents themselves. Mere agree
ments may not make peace secure.
It will be absolutely necessary that
a force be created as guarantor OF
the permanency of the settlement so
much greater than the force of any
hitherto formed or projected that no
nation, no probable combination OF
nations, could face or withstand IT,.
If the peace presently to be made is
to endure, it must be a peace made
secure by the organized major force
OF mankind.
"The terms of the immediate
peace agreed upon will determine
whether it is peace for which such
a guarantee can be secured. The
question upon which the whole fu-
ture peace and policy of the world
depends is this: Is the present war
a struggle for just and secure peace,
or only for a new balance of power?
II it be only a struggle for new
balance of power who will guarantee,
who can guarantee, the stable equili-
brium of the new arrangement? Only
a tanquil Europe can be stable
Europe. There must be, not bal
ance Of power, but community OF
power, not organized riyalries, but
an organized common peace.
Both Claim Justice.
Fortunately We have received very
explicit assurances on this point. The
statesmen of both of the groups. of
nations now arrayed against one an
other have said in terms that could
not be misinterpreted, that it was no
part of the purpose they had in mind
to crush their antagonists. But the
implications of these assurances may
not be equally clear to all, may not
be the same on both sides of the wa
ter. l think it will be serviceable If
I attempt to set forth what we un-
derstand them to be.
They imply first of all that it must
be a peace without victory. 1t is not
pleasant to say this. l beg that |
may be permitted to put my own in
depreciation upon it and that it may
be understood that no other interpre-
tation was in my thought am seek
ing only to face realities and to face
them without soft concealments.
Victory would mean peace forced
upon the loser, victors terms i'm
posed upon the vanquished. 1t would
be accepted in humiliation under
duress at an intolerable sacrifice and
would leave a sting, resentment, q
bitter memory upon which terms OF
peace would rest, not permanently,
but only as upon quicksand. Only
peace between equals can last Only
peace the very principle of which
is equality and common participation
in common benefit The right state
of mind, the right feeling between
nations, is as Necessary for a lasting
peace as is the just settlement of
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