Various documents concerning President Woodrow Wilson

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32 33 to have the civilized society governed as they apply to the individual citizens of modern states, in such a way that all promises and treaties are carefully observed, that no special attacks and conspiratorialities are instigated and that mutual trust is created on the basis of exchangeable respect for the law. 4. A peace organization which guarantees that all the power of the free nations will prevent any violation of the law, and which establishes an arbitration tribunal to which all international contradictions shall be subjected. These great goals can be summed up in one thought: on the occasion of the tender of the fourth freedom bond in We strive for the reign of the right, founded on the consent of New York on 27 September 1918. of the governed and supported by the organized opinion of humanity. After the issue of the .k. Telegraph-Correspondence-Bureau. The great goals cannot be achieved by discussing the wishes of the statesmen and their plans for the equilibrium of K. Lon do n, September 30. (Meldung des Reuterschen Bureaus.) Power for the great nations and reconciling them and trying to adapt them to each other In his speech, President Wilson fed out:. They could only be realized by Be- The League of Elders cannot be formed now. If it were now attuned to the desires of the peoples of the world with their selfishness and form, it would only be a new alliance, limited to the one against the common hope of justice and social freedom. Peace offers to this enemy associated nations. It is not a good opportunity either. I can imagine that the air of this place is likely to be formed after peace. It especially likes to accept utterance of principle. Start here is necessary to guarantee peace and peace cannot be guaranteed as the forces against which the great nation against which they were initially directed, a later thought, the cause of which was a revolt against their rightful rule. But since then why do you have to speak in clear terms again about why he has guaranteed it to be a step towards the liberation of your own as well as of yours? That there will be participants in the peace which the American people see, and I stand here with pride, promises that have turned out to be unreliable, and that in order to speak with confidence of the expansion of this revolt, therefore, in connection with the peace agreement, of means and of this liberation on the great world plight. These must be found in order to remove this source of uncertainty. It would be foolish to have the guarantee of a later voluntary action of a known, cronies who, once obtained, will never again leave to the ground government, which, as we have seen, can be defeated by Russia; for they have a spirit and have betrayed an end and Romania. But these general words still give purpose, which are immortal and guarantee triumph. no picture of the whole thing. There are still some of these details, and I speak of it with all the greater confidence, because it can be said that they represent the view of the government about its own duty with regard to peace. The impartial justice granted must not bring with it a distinction between those whom we desire to be fair to and those to whom we do not want to be just; it must be a justice which knows no well-off and no gradations, but only equal rights for the peoples involved. 2. No particular, separate interest of any single nation or group of nations can be made the basis of any part of the agreement if it does not agree with the common interest of all. 3. In the common family of the League of Nations there can be no bond, alliance or special treaties or agreements. There can be no special, self-economic combinations within the Federation, no application of economic 1417