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NATION MAY BE FORGED INTO WARWilson Urges Unity at Inaugural.DECLARES ANEW U. S. STANDS FOR PEACEAsserts We ire Compelled to Arm to Make Good Our Claim to Certain Rights.Washington, March 6.—President Wilson took the oath of office in public and delivered his inaugural Address before a great crowd which packed the plazft at the east front of the Capitol.Vice President Marshall had been inaugurated In the senate chamber a few minutes before.Wlt^i a new consecration to the nation’s service the president, touching on the international crisis, declared there should* now be no turning back from the tragical events of the last thirty months which have brought on Americans a new responsibility as citizens of the world.“We have been obliged to arm ourselves,” said the president, “to make good our claim to a certain minimum of right and freedom of action.“We stand firm in armed neutrality since it* seems that in no other way we demonstrate what it is we insist on and cannot forego.May Be Forced Into War.“We may even be drawn on, by circumstances, not by our own purpose or desire, to a more active assertion of our rights as we see them and a more immediate association with the great struggle itself.”The president declared anew that America must stand for peace, stability of free peoples, national equality in matters of right, that the seas must be free to all and that the family of nations shall not support any governments not derived from the consent of the governed.Sounding a solemn warning to the nation against any faction or intrigue to break the harmony or embarrass the spirit of the American people, the president called for an America “united in feeling, in purpose and in its vision of duty, of opportunity and of service.”At the conclusion of his address the president led the inaugural procession back to the White House, where it passed in review before him.Inaugurated President of United States Second Time.BERLIN PAPERS NOT PROUD OF CONSPIRACYBerlin, March 6.—Berlin: newspaper* which were permitted finally to refer to the proposed German-Mexican alliance revelations do not seem particularly proud over the matter. The majority confine themselves to printing the German official statement under more or less noncommittal headlines. The Tages Zeitung prints it under a question mark, while the Vossische Zeitung and the Morgen. Post refer to the conditional nature of . the measure.Only the Berliner Tageblatt and the Lokal Anzeiger venture to comment on it. The Anzeiger pictures the measure as a patriotic aud properstep of the government and lays stress rather on the American than on the German end of the story, which it treats as a maneuver by President Wilson to force the armament measure through congress.The Tageblatt, after a brief statement about the conditions in Mexico, emphasizes the point in the German declaration that the proposal was not submitted to the Mexican government4*4*4*4-4‘4*4*4*4-4-4-4'4'4'4*4-4* 44- GERARD THANKS FRANCE -1 •*• AND SPAIN. H+ -J*4**4-4-*4-4*4- +4-4-4-4-4‘4*4-4-4-4-4-4' 4^4* 4- 4- 4*TO ADOPT BELGIAN VILLAGEOyster Bay Will Care for Twenty-four Hundred Children.Paris, March 6.—James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, who is returning to the United States on the steam-en Infanta Isabel, has expressed his thanks by wireless to official France and Spain for the courteous receptions accorded him.
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