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... bring this war to a satisfactory conclusion . ― Our own attitude is a large factor in that process . But here we come upon a truth which , because it runs counter to our instinctive feelings , is likely to be taken as an attempt at ...
... bring this war to a satisfactory conclusion . ― Our own attitude is a large factor in that process . But here we come upon a truth which , because it runs counter to our instinctive feelings , is likely to be taken as an attempt at ...
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... bring our German people slavery and serfdom . The other day I read in committee an article by the French Senator , Humbert , which closed with something like the following words : ' This race of slaves dreaming of world - hegemony ...
... bring our German people slavery and serfdom . The other day I read in committee an article by the French Senator , Humbert , which closed with something like the following words : ' This race of slaves dreaming of world - hegemony ...
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... bringing about a satisfactory ending of the present war date back to its very beginning . On Aug. 3 , 1914 , six days after Austria had declared war on Serbia and the very day on which Germany invaded Belgium , he made a formal offer to ...
... bringing about a satisfactory ending of the present war date back to its very beginning . On Aug. 3 , 1914 , six days after Austria had declared war on Serbia and the very day on which Germany invaded Belgium , he made a formal offer to ...
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... bring forward for such negotiations are an ap- propriate basis for a lasting peace . " Their aims are not to shatter nor annihilate their adversaries . " Their object is a guarantee for their nations of their existence , honor and free ...
... bring forward for such negotiations are an ap- propriate basis for a lasting peace . " Their aims are not to shatter nor annihilate their adversaries . " Their object is a guarantee for their nations of their existence , honor and free ...
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... bring pressure to bear upon the Allies and to se- cure a general adoption of the Russian peace - for- mula : and this policy was expected either to bring about a general and satisfactory peace , or , if the German military bureaucracy ...
... bring pressure to bear upon the Allies and to se- cure a general adoption of the Russian peace - for- mula : and this policy was expected either to bring about a general and satisfactory peace , or , if the German military bureaucracy ...
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Page 75 - No people must be forced under sovereignty under which it does not wish to live. No territory must change hands except for the purpose of securing those who inhabit it a fair chance of life and liberty.
Page 151 - They do not need to be stated again. We seek no material advantage of any kind. We believe that the intolerable wrongs done in this war by the furious and brutal power of the Imperial German Government ought to be repaired...
Page 22 - It may be that peace is nearer than we know; that the terms which the belligerents on the one side and on the other would deem it necessary to insist upon are not so irreconcilable as some have feared...
Page 22 - takes the liberty of calling attention to the fact that the objects which the statesmen of the belligerents on both sides have in mind in this war are virtually the same, as stated in general terms to their own people and to the world. Each side desires to make the rights and privileges of weak peoples and small states as secure against aggression or denial in the future as the rights and privileges of the great and powerful states now at war.
Page 118 - We cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guarantee of anything that is to endure, unless explicitly supported by such conclusive evidence of the will and purpose of the German people themselves as the other peoples of the world would be justified in accepting.
Page 22 - The President is not proposing peace ; he is not even offering mediation. He is merely proposing that soundings be taken in order that we may learn, the neutral nations with the belligerent, how near the haven of peace may be for which all mankind longs with an intense and increasing longing.
Page 252 - Third: The signatory powers shall jointly use forthwith both their economic and military forces against any one of their number that goes to war, or commits acts of hostility, against another of the signatories before any question arising shall be submitted as provided in the foregoing.
Page 73 - ... but that its object is to establish a durable peace on the basis of the rights of nations to decide their own destiny. 'The Russian Nation does not lust after the strengthening of its power abroad at the expense of other nations. Its aim is not to subjugate or humiliate any one.
Page 21 - The suggestion which I am instructed to make, the President has long had it in mind to offer. He is somewhat embarrassed to offer it at this particular time, because it may now seem to have been prompted by the recent overtures of the Central Powers.