Identifier: compilationofmesv18unit (find matches)
Title: A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1897.
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: United States. President Richardson, James D. (James Daniel), 1843-1914, comp
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Publisher: New York, : Bureau of National Literature, Inc.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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le sweep of the Alps from northwest to south-east to the very end of the Istrian Peninsula, including all the greatwatershed within which Trieste and Pola lie, and all the fair regionswhose face nature has turned toward the great peninsula upon whichthe historic life of the Latin people has been worked out through cen-turies of famous story ever since Rome was first set upon her sevenhills. Her ancient unity is restored. Her lines are extended to the greatwalls which are her natural defense. It is within her choice to be sur-rounded by friends; to exhibit to the newly liberated peoples across theAdriatic that noblest quality of greatness, magnanimity, friendly gen-erosity, the preference of justice over interest. The nations associated with her, the nations that knew nothing ofthe Pact of London or of any other special understanding that lies atthe beginning of this great struggle, and who have made their supremesacrifice also in the interest, not of national advantage or defense, but
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THE LARGEST AIRPLANE, 1919. The plane in the accompanying photograph, put into service early in 1919,at the time of its completion was the largest heavier-than-air machine in theworld. It was used in the transport service of the United States for the de-tection of enemy submarines. Woodrow Wilson 8705 of the settled peace of the world, are now united with her older as-sociates in urging her to assume a leadership which cannot be mistakenin the new order of Europe. America is Italys friend. Her people are drawn, millions strong,from Italys own fair countrysides. She is linked in blood, as well as 111affection, with the Italian people. Such ties can never be broken.And America was privileged, by the generous commission of her asso-ciates in the war, to initiate the peace we are about to consummate—to initiate it upon terms which she had herself formulated and inwhich I was her spokesman. The compulsion is upon her to square every decision she takes apart in with those principles. She

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