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Title: Approaches to the great settlement
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 Angell, Pauline Knickerbocker, 1886-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 International law and relations
Publisher: New York, B. W. Huebsch
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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en the wholething is over? Five days later at Charlotte, N. C,he spoke of Americans as imagining themselves* lifting some sacred emblem of counsel and ofpeace, of accommodation and righteous judgment,^ before the nations of the world. A few days later,in an address before the League to Enforce Peace,the so-called Declaration of Interdependence, hestated, as a profession of faith, the principles uponwhich he was later to formulate a definite policy ofinternational relations : 1 These debates and interviews, except the last, for which seeN. Y. Times, Nov. 10, may be found in Governments and Parlia-ments on Peace, a pamphlet published by the Nederlandsche Anti-Oorlog Raad, 51 Theresiastraat, The Hague. 2 The Paris Economic Conference was held in April of that year.It proposed a trade war after the war against Germany. Brit-ish, French, Italian, Belgian, Servian and Russian delegates werepresent, and a program was adopted, which had, however, no bind-ing force upon their Governments. (18)
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Photo by Paul Thompson PRESIDENT WILSON First, that every people has the right to choose the sover-eignty under which it shall live; Second, that the small States have the same right as thegreat to have their sovereignty and territorial integrityrespected ; Third, that the world has the right to be free from hav-ing its peace disturbed by aggression and disregard of therights of others.^ On this occasion, moreover, he foreshadowed theoffer, made formally in his peace note of the fol-lowing December, of American participation in aleague of nations to maintain peace. If It shouldever be our privilege, he said, to suggest or Ini-tiate a movement for peace among the nations nowat war, I am sure that the people of the UnitedStates would wish their Government to move alongthese lines — namely, first, a settlement such as thebelligerents may be able to agree on as regards theirown Immediate Interests, with which we have noth-ing to do, and finally, a universal association of thenations to

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