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I Believe That In The End The Abolition Of War, The Maintenance Of World Peace, The Adjustment Of International Questions By Pacific Means Will Come Through The Force Of Public Opinion, Which Controls Nations And Peoples.

Each One Of These Treaties Is A Step For The Maintenance Of Peace, An Additional Guarantee Against War. It Is Through Such Machinery That The Disputes Between Nations Will Be Settled And War Prevented.

I Regret Very Much To Hear So Many People, Many Of My Own Countrymen, Predicting War, Stating That Europe Is Preparing And Arming For Such A Conflict.

The Fact That So Many Of Your People Are Today Residents And Citizens Of The United States, Lending Their Influence To Our Civic And Economic Life, Which Has Meant So Much To Our Development.

It Is By Such Means As The Prize Offered By Your Committee That The Attention Of The World Will Be Focused And That Men And Women Will Be Inspired To Greater Efforts In The Interest Of Peace.