Making a New Europe and the League of Nations
The speaker argues for redrawing borders to reflect national self rule, creating a new Romania and Slavic states around Serbia, and asserts the necessity of a League of Nations as the enforcing framework. He notes harms of empires, the need for minority protections, international waterways, and labor covenants, and stresses that America must accept a guiding role in enforcing a lasting peace.
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American role in postwar peace aims outlines ideals
The passage recalls America's wartime stance as a defender of universal rights shared with free peoples. It notes the aim to shape a peace treaty along principled lines and to be seen as disinterested friends and arbiter in disputes, with material aid deemed indispensable in ensuing days.
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