LEAGUE OF NATIONS
ONLY MEANS OF BRINGING SETTLED PEACE PITIABLE FOR AMERICA TO HOLD ALOOF STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT WILSON By Tolesnph-.Preaß iseooiation-Oonyrlßhit Washington, October 27. ' President Wilson received a delegation representative of Republicans opposed to the League of Nations. He said that the United States enterod tho war not merely to beat Germany, but to end' the possibility of the renewal of | such iniqluitous schemes t ls (Germany entertained. There was only ono way to assure a world peace, and that was by making it so dangerous to break the peace that no other nation would have the audacity to attempt it. There were other nations likely to be powerfully moved or were already moved by commercial jealousy, by desire to dominate and have their own way in policies and enterprise, and it was necessary to check tliem and infornl them that tho world would be united against them if they attempted anything similar to that attempted .by Germany. The great moral influence of the United State* would be absolutely thrown away unless it completed the task the soldiers and sailors undertook to execute. Discussing .Article Ten, President Wilson said that it was the specific pledge of the members of tho League that they would unite and resist exactly tho things that Germany attempted, no matter who attempted them in the future. . America had now to choose whether it would make good or quit. The issue was between the United States spirit and purpose and the spirit and purpes© of Imperialism, no matter where it showed itself.- No. one who had* opposed the ratification of the Versailles Proaty or the adoption of the League Covenants had proposed other: adequate means for bringing a settled peace, 110 other means," ' declared tho President. "The eo-oalled Americanism we hear so much prating about now is spurious—invented for party purposes only. . The whole future moral forco of rjght in the world depends upon the United States rather than on any other nation. It would be pitiful, indeedi, if we should' hold aloof. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 29, 29 October 1920, Page 7
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341LEAGUE OF NATIONS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 29, 29 October 1920, Page 7
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