下所载为昨日威尔逊第二任总统就职演说词中之要旨。
We stand firm in armed neutrality, since it seems that in no other way we can demonstrate what it is we insist upon and cannot iorego. 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.
We are Drovincials no longer. The tragical events of the thirty months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning hack, our own fortunes as a nation are involved, whether we would have it so or not.
And yet we are not the less Americans on that account. We shall be the more American if we but remain true to the principles in which we have been bred. They are not the principles of a province or of a single continent. We have known and boasted all along that they were the principles of a liberated mankind. These, therefore, are the things we shall stand for, whether in war or in peace:
That all nations are equally interested in the peace of the world and in the political stability of free peoples, and equally responsible for their maintenance.
That the essential principle of peace is the actual equality of nations in all matters of right or privilege.
That peace cannot securely or justly rest upon an armed balance of powar.
That Governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed and that no other powers should be supported by the common thought, purpose, or power of the family of nations.
That the seas should be equally free and safe for the use of all peoples, under rules set up by common agreement and consent, and that, so far as practicable, they should be accessible to all upon equal terms.
That national armaments should be limited to the necessities of national order and domestic safety.
That the community of interest and of power upon which peace must henceforth depend imposes upon each nation the duty of
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