II.--Recognition of the principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed; III.--The right of all great peoples to have a direct outlet to the sea, either by territorial acquisition or by neutralization; IV.--The freedom of the seas; V.--The limitations of armaments on land and sea; VI.--Refusal to permit any nation to extend its policy over any other nation or people; VII.--A concert of nations to guarantee peace and the rights of all nations, no entangling alliances creating a competition for power, but a league for the enforcement of international peace. “These are American principles, American policies,” the President stated. “They are also the principles of forward-looking men and women everywhere, of every modern nation, and of every enlightened community.” To the very last, until the action of Germany in restricting the freedom of the seas for which the United States had fought and won a war in days when she was ill-prepared for any conflict, our country had stood out for peace. Only when our vital rights were threatened, our vital principles violated, did war come. And, when it came the United States entered into the conflict, not in hot passion, but with the high purpose of establishing a real peace that cannot be broken by any one vandal nation. The kind of peace which is the ideal of the United States, and the one toward which we are now fighting, is not to be the sort which may be patched up over a council-table for a brief space. There is only one way of curing a cancer of the human body. It must be cut out. And so it is with the world. The only way to cure the world of war is to cut out the cancer of militarism. The only way to cut it out is to defeat the armies of militarism.