Reply of the United States to the Communication of the Pope to the Belligerent Governments
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This is a test which goes to ihe root of the matter; and it is the test which must be applied. The purposes of the United States in this war are known to the whole world, to every people to whom the truth has been permitted to come. They do not need to be stated again. We seek no material ^idvantage of any kind. We believe that the intolerable wrongs D. of 1). SEP 24 1917 f"^ (.lone in this war by the furious and brutal power of the Imperial German Government ought to be repaired, but not at th...e expense of the sovereignty of any people — rather a vindication of the sover- eignty both of those that are weak and of those that are strong. Punitive damages, the dismemberment of empires, the establishment of selfish and exclusive economic leagues, we deem inexpedient and in the end worse than futile, no proper basis for a peace of any kind, least of all for an enduring peace. That must be based upon justice and fairness and the common rights of mankind. We can not take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guaranty 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 justi- fied in accepting.
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