Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-05
ASKS IMMEDIATE
|. DECLARATION THAT
SUCH STATE EXISTS
Ringing Appeal for Action
Against Germany's Vas
sal and Tool.
DlSMIsSES POSSIBILITY
OF PREMATURE PEACE
Declares in Emphatic Tones That
Unalterable Task Ahead Is
to Win the War.
AGAIN STATES AMERICAS AIMS
Address Received With Enthusias.
tic Applause by Members -.
! Of Congress.
AGAIN STATES AMERICAS AIMS
tBy Associated Prcss.1


WASHINGTON, December A den.
ica's war aims and OF the basis upon
which peace will be considered was
made to-day by President Wilson In
an address to Congress. in which he
urged immediate declaration of a state
of war between the United States and
Austria Hungary. Gcrmany's vassal and
tool AS to Turkey and Bulgaria
also tools OF the cncmy--he counsclcd
delay because they do not yet stand
in the direct path of our necessary
action"
TO win the war. the President de-
ciarcd in emphatic and ringing tones,
is tho immediate and unaItcrable task
ahead. lie urged Congress- just be-
ginning it's second war session, to con-
centrate itself upon it.
Tho President sharply dismissed the
possibility OF premature peace, sought
by German intrigue and debated here
by men who understand neither it's
nature nor the way 1t may DO attained.
| with victory an accomplished fact he
said. peace will he evolved based ION
mercy and justice" to enemy and
| friend. with hope OF a partnership OF
nations to guarantee future world
peace.
The war will he deemed won. he de-
clared, when the German people say
to us. through properly accredited rep
reScntativcs. that they arc ready to
agree to ii settlement based OH Justice
and reparation for the wrong their
rulers have done" Terms Of peace, he
added, would not include dismcmber-
enemy. but would be based on justice,
defined briefly as follows:
TERMS OF PEACE
OUTLINED BY PRESIDENT
Freedom of nations and their pco-
pies from autocratic domination, rep
aration to Belgium. REIMBURSEMENT OF
German power over tho peoples of AUS
| tria. Turkey, the free Balkan states, as
we'll as evacuation of Prussian terri
torial conquests in Belgium and North
crn France"
Emphasizing the purpose OF tha
United States not to interfere in the
Internal affairs Of any nation. the
President asserted that no wrong
against the German empire was In
tended. and that there was no desire
to rearrangc the Austro- Hungarian
months ago Of the right OF nations TO
free access to the seas he had Austria,
as we'll as the smaller and weaker ma
tons. in mind.
| Appearing before Congress in joint
session for the first time since he asked
for the war declaration against Ger
many last April, the President was
more than usually warmly greeted and
his speech was received with cnthusi-
astic applause which grew tumuItuous
when he reached the recomme ndatiou
as 10 Austria. Diplomats. Justices OF
the supreme Court and other high off,
Gals assembled on the floor Joined IN
the demonstration.
The definition of war aims and peace
terms, the most explicit ever voiced BY
the head of any of the great warning
powers. was accepted as the more si-i
niticant because since his reply to the
Pope's peace note, the President has
come to be regarded more and more
as spokesman for Ill the nations
lighting Germany.
AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION
IN ALL CORNERS or WORLD
BY advance arrangement the address
was made available for publication to-
globe. 1t probably will not appear IN
full i'll the Teutonic press. but the
papers of neutral countries and the
work of allied av!ators will set it I'd
many Germans in unmutilated form.
The request for 4 declaration OF war
with Austria met with very unanimous
approval, and Congress tonight was
prepared 20 give prompt response.
Passage by the House on Thursday ana
by the Senate on Friday OF the neces.
sary resolution was planned by the
leaders. who began drafting the formal
document soon after tho President
finished speaking. &5
Strong sentiment i'm favor OF includ-
ing Turkey and Bulgaria in the new
war declaration, in spite OF tho PresI-
dents counsel, was prevalent, but adj
ministration leaders expected to curb
1t by pointing to Mr.. Wilson's DECLARE.
ton:
we shall so wherever the nccessT- y
ties OF this war carry US. but 1t seems
TO me that we should go only where