AMERICA'S REPLY TO GERMAN CHALLENGE
FORCE— TO THE UTMOST. TO MAKE RIGHT THE LAW OF THE WORLD. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received April 8, 1.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 7. President Wilson added: "That programme once carried out, America and all who care for or dare stand with her must arm themselves to. contest the mastery of the world — a mastery wherein the rights of men, women, and all who are weak enough must for the time being be trodden under foot. The age-long struggle for freedom and right would begin again." Tlie President said he was ready now to discuss a fair, just and honest peace if put forward with a sincere purpose, but the answer when he proposed snch a peace came from the German commanders m Russia, ahd the meaning of the answer could not be mistaken. Therefore he accepted the challenge — ''and I know you accept it," he added. "All the world shall know you accept it. The answer shall appear m the utter sacrifice and self-forgetfulness with which we shall give all that we love and all we have to renew the world, .to make it fit for free men like ourselves to live m. "My fellow countrymen, henceforth let everything we plan to accomplish ring trpe to this purpose till the majesty and might of your concerted .power fill ".he thought and utterly defeat the force of those who flout and misprize what we honor and hold. dear. - Therefore but one response is possible from hb : Force, to the utmost, Foree — without stint or limit — the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make rifchtthe luvroi the world and cast every selfish dominion down m the dust."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14578, 8 April 1918, Page 6
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