Why We Are at War : Messages to the Congress January to April 1917

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Woodrow Wilson. Why We Are at War : Messages to the Congress January to April 1917

I. A WORLD LEAGUE FOR PEACE

II. THE SEVERANCE OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH GERMANY

III. REQUEST FOR A GRANT OF POWER

IV. WE MUST ACCEPT WAR

V. A STATE OF WAR

VI “SPEAK, ACT, AND SERVE TOGETHER”

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Gentlemen of the Senate:

On the 18th of December last I addressed an identic note to the Governments of the nations now at war, requesting them to state, more definitely than they had yet been stated by either group of belligerents, the terms upon which they would deem it possible to make peace. I spoke on behalf of humanity and of the rights of all neutral nations like our own, many of whose most vital interests the war puts in constant jeopardy.

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Only a peace between equals can last; only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. The right state of mind, the right feeling between nations, is as necessary for a lasting peace as is the just settlement of questions of territory or of racial and national allegiance.

MUST EQUALIZE RIGHTS OF NATIONS

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