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glorifies you in your generosity and restores to us a  
traditional friend and neighbor. Europe and the world  
is learning the sorry lesson that urnprovoked force does  
not pay but even while these battles have been raging  
men and women of the American World and many elsewhere  
have not been idly eating out their hearts with threats  
of revenge but have worked patiently and well to evolve  
a series of world arrangements intended to insure a  
peaceful future for manking. The crushing burden of  
armaments and of armies through many years has sucked  
out the life blood and in the end destroyed much of the  
physical structure of civilization produced by the patient  
work of many generations of our peoples. The burdens  
of taxation to provide these wasteful machines, the  
preparations for this war andits conduct have been  
borne by every man and woman throughout christendom.  
These burdens and the disaster of the war will fall  
not only upon the guilty but more fully upon the innocent.  
To permit recurrence of these evils which we know from  
sad experience twice suffered in ths days of most of  
us would prove a sad commentary on our intelligence.  
Any one who fails to support a real effort to create a  
peaceful world is false to his times and to posterity.  
Men may and should debate precise mechanisms by which  
 
 
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