I will now come to the President's second point—Democracy.
I believe with all democrats on earth that the democratic principle is the best possible means man has ever perceived for government, but even if I am stoned by the majority of the living democracies, I confess that I do not believe that there is One country in existence which is really and truly governed under democratic principles.
I believe that we should let each country have the government their own people deserve or desire. We had one good but useless fight to make the world safe for Democracy, shall we now again fight a war on ideological grounds, a quasi-religious war? We must absolutely refuse to admit the necessity of such or any other war; Animus meminisse borrel!
The third point, the President proclaims as indispensable for every American is international good faith.
This is a risky challenge when living in a crystal palace. I will only state facts and prove that the United States of America and her associates were the first to set a bad example; we may rightly say that all we have suffered since 1919 is due to international bad faith, partly imported io Europe from America and embodied in the Treaty of Versailles.
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