New Britain herald., 1917-06-11
ID RIGHT WRONGS
 IS AMERICA'S AIM
President Wilson's Note to Rus
 Sia Made Public

Washington. June 11.-President Wilson. in a communication to the new government of Russia, has made plain the war aims of the United states and its position on mo annex ations; no indemnities.'' as. No territory must change hands except for the purpose of securing, those who inhabit it fair chance of life and liberty. says the communl- cation.
 No indAmnities must be insisted on except those that constitute payment for manifest wrong done.
 No readjustments of power must be made. except such as will tend to secure the future peace of the world and the future welfare and happiness of its people"
 r In tansnistAkable terms, President Wilson declared against Germany. proposal to restore the status quo" before the war.
 It was the status quo ante out of which this iniquitous war issued forth" he gays. the power of the Imperial German government within the empire and its widespread dom 1hStSOA Skn0 1uuuSUC0 OuIS10O O1 tQdt empire.
 4Ashion as to prevent any such hide ous thing from ever hAppening again.
 The presidents communication was delivered to the Russian government by Ambassador Francis at Petrograd. In full 1t Is as follows:
 Tn view of the approaching visit sof tho American delegation to Russia to express the deep friendship of the American people for the people of Russia and to discuss the best and most practical means of cooperation hetweed the two peoples In carrying the present struggle for the freedom Of all peoples to . successful consum- nation. 1t seems opportEale and ap- propriatA that I should state again, In the light of this new partnership. the objects-the United States has had m mind in entering the war. Those objects have been very much. becloud- d during the past few weeks by mis- taken and misleading statements and the Issues at stake are too momentous, too trem&ndouss too significant for the whole human race to permit any mis Interpretations or .misunderstandings however slight, to remain uncorrected for moment.
 .'The war has begun to so against Germany. and in their rate de. sire to escape the inevitable ultimate defeat those who are in authority in Germany are using every possible in- strumentality. are making use even of the influence of groups and parties among their own subjects to whom they have never been just or fair or even tolerant. to promote . propa- ganda on both sides of the sea which, will preserve for them their influence It home and their power abroad, .o the undoing of the. very men they are usins. .
 .sThe position of America in this war Ia so clearly avowed that no man can be excused for miskaking 1t. She eeeks no material profit or aggrandsze- ment of any kind. She ia lighting for no advantage or selfish object of her own but for the liberation of peoples everywhere from the aggressions of autocratie force. The ruling classes in Germany have begun of late to profess . like liberality and justice Of purpose, but only to preserve the power they. have set up in Germany and the selfish. advantages which they have wrongly gained for themsel,e es and their private projects of power all the way from Berlin to Bagdad and beyond. Government after gov ernment has by their influence, with out open conquest of its territory been linked together in a net of in trigue directed against nothing les.
 than the peace and liberty of th< world. The meshes of that intrigue
 must be broken. but cannot be broker
 unless wrongs already done are un.
 done: and adequate measures mus
 be taken to prevent it from ever aga.i
 being rewoven or repaired.
 ''Of course. the imperial Germa-