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30 31 Whatever the difficulties and the present partial delays, we are invincible in our power of independent deed and cannot agree under any circumstances to live in a world governed by renunciations of violence. We believe that our own desire for a new world order, in which reason, justice and the all-godly interest of humanity govern, is liberal. Without this new world system, the world will be without peace. Human life will lack authentic existence and developmental speech at Washington's grave conditions. After we have unilaterally put our hand to the execution of this task on 4 July 1918, we will no longer turn back. I hope that I do not need to add that no word which, after the issue of the k. k. Telegraph Correspondence Bureau, I have said is meant as a threat. This does not correspond to the attitude of our people. I have spoken this way just so that the whole world may know the real The Tomb of Washington is not a place of death, but a place atmosphere of America, that people everywhere know the deed. It is very important for Washington and its helpers that our passion for justice and self-government should not speak for a class but for a people. Their conscious goal is not occasionally a passion in words, but a solehe, which was to liberate the humanity of all classes and to turn America into action, to be satisfied. To make the power of refuge for the people of fallen countries when it is a threat to the united states is for no nation and for no people. We would like to share the rights and privileges of free men. We will never have them as targets for offensive purposes or for the satisfaction of self-sustaining halon. We in America believe that our partial interests are being applied. It originates from freedom and stands at war only the fruit of what they have slid. Our services of freedom. The view of the great stroit in which we are involved is as follows: on the one hand there are peoples of the world, not only those who participate in the camp, but also many others who suffer from the supreme rule, the people of many races and all parts of the globe, including Russia. Iinen is opposed to an isolated group of friendless governments who have no common goals in mind, but only seek to satisfy their own selfish ambition, while their peoples are only fuel in their hands, governments clothed with a primitive power that comes from a time that is completely alien and hostile to us. Past and present are involved in a struggle for life and death. The result must be final. We would not be able to tolerate any comparison or half decision. Nor would half a decision be possible. The allied peoples succumb to the following goals, which must be realized before peace can become: 1 Destruction of every arbitrariness and power, which alone and at home can disturb the peace of the world, and, if its destruction is not now possible, at least its downfall to actual powerlessness. Settlement of all issues, both territorial and sovereign, economic and political, on the basis of the free acceptance of this settlement by the people directly affected, and not on the grounds of a material interest or advantage of any other people who wishes to have a different arrangement for the spread of its influence or rule. 3. Consent of all peoples. in their relations with each other, separated from the same basic principles of honor and respect for the customary 146