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"RATIONAL ARCHIVES AMV RECORDS SERVICE is RADIO PRESS January 26, 1919. PRESSID PRESIDENT WILSON'S ADDRESS AT PEACE CONFERENCE. Peris, Jon. 25. Mr. I consider it a distinguished privilege to be pormitted to open the discussi on in this conforonce on the loaguo of nations. Ve hove assomblod for two purposes, to make the prosent settlement S which have boon rendorod necossary by this var, and also to securo the peace of tho world not only by the prosont sottloments, but by the arrongements yo shall mako at this conforoneo for i. ts mintenance. The loaguo of nations seoms to mo to bo necessory for both of thoso ur osos. Thore are my copplicated qwstions connocted with the prosont sottlements which perhons cannot be successfully workod out to an ultimeto issuo by the docisions VO shall arrivo at horo. I con oasily conceivo thet meny of thoso sottlemonts will neod subsoquont altoration in somo degrees; For if I my judge by my own study of some of thoso questions thoy are not SUS- coptiblo of confidant judgommt at present. It is, thorofore, nocessery that wo should set up somo mochinory by which the wark of thoso conforonces should be rondored comploto. Ve havo assomblod horo for the purposo of doin vory much moro then making the prosont sottlomonts that are necessary. "We are assomblod undor vory poculiar condition: of world opinione I my say without straining the point that wo are not roposentativos of Govornmonts, but ropresontetives of people. It will not suffico to satisfy Govornnontal circles enywhoro. It is nocessory thit wo should satisfy the opinion of mony. The burdens of this wor have fallen in an unusual degroo upon the wholo Dopulation of tho countrios involved. I do not nood to draw for you tho picturo of how the burdon had boen thrown back from tho 1 ront upon the oldor mon, upon tho womon, upon the childron, and upon the homos of the civilized vorld, and how the rozl stroin of the wer has camo vhoro the oyo of the Govomment could not roach but vhoro tho hoort of humonity beat. We are bidden by these peoplo to moke a poace which will muko thom securo. We aro biddnnis by theso pooplo to soo to it that this strain do os not come upon thom again and I vonturo to say that it hes boon possiblo for thom to boar this strain becauso they hopod that those whoxropresonted thom could Get togothor after this war and moko such onothor socrifice if nocessory. It is 3 solomn obligation in our part, thoroforo, to mekro pormament ar- rengoments that justico shall bo rondored and penco mintoinod; this is the contral objoct_of our mooting. Sottlement may be tomporary but the action of the nations in the interest of ponco and justico must be mintainod. Thoroforo, it sooms thet NO must concort our bost judgement in ordor to moko this loague of nations a vitol thing --- not a thing sometimos collod into lifo to oxist, but always functioning in watchful attendenco upon the intorest of the notions. And thot its continuity should be a vital continuity and constent functions and that do not pormit an intormission of its wotchfulnoss and of its lebor; that is should be the oye of to o nations to koop watch upon the common intorest, con oyo that did not slumbor, en oye that was cvery.horo wotchful and attentivo, Ind if wa do not moke it witel, what sholl wo do? sholl disappoint the expoctations of the pooplo. This is whot thoir through contors are upon. I had the vory dolijhtful oxporioned of visiting sovorel netions sinco I como to this sido of the wator and ovory timo the voico of the bady of the pooplo rocchod ino through any roprosontotivo at the front stood the hopo of losguc of nations. Gontlomon, the soloct classes of mony aro no longor the 3ovorns of The fortunos of man- kind cro now in the h nds of the poople of the vorld. sotisfy thom, nd you have justifiod thoir confidonco not only but ostablished Feil to satisfy thom, and no arrengoment that you con mku will cithor sot up or stoady the podoo of the world. You cQn succood, I dare sy the sontiments of the purposo of the United States roprosontativos support this grost project for a loaguo of nations. ro- tard it as the principlo of the world programo, thich oxprossed our purposes enl idools in this war and which the associated nations accoptod es tho besis of the settloment. If wo return to the Unitod Statos vi thout heving modo ovory effort in our povvor to ronlizo this NO should roturn to moot the morits of our follow citizons. For thoy are a body that constitutos : Gront democracy< They oppoct thoir leadors to sponk as thoir roprosontativos, to bo thoir sorvents, wo hove no choico but to oboy them, but it is with the grostost onthusicsm and ploasuro thet vo necopt that. And becouso this is the work of the vhole world, we have plodgod ovory purpose to it, as to hevo to ovory itom of the febric, wo would not Obate this sinco it is of the progranno which constitutos our instructions, we