The text of President Roosevelt's eleventh-hour appeal for peace declared:
"The fabric of peace on the con, tinent of Europe if not throughout the world is in immediate danger. The consequences of its rupture cannot be calculated. Should host ties break out, the lives of millions of men, women and children in every country involved would most certainly be jost under circumstances of unspeakable horror. The economic system. of every country involved may well be completely wrecked.
"The supreme desire of the American people is to-live in peace, but in the event of a general war they face the fact that no nation can escape some measure of the consequences of such a world catastrophe.. Whatever may be the differences and controvert sies at issue, and however difücult a pacific settlement may be, I am persuaded there is no problem so difficult and so pressing for solution that it cannot be justly solved by resort to reason rather than to force."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.