THE WORLD AT THE CROSS ROADS accept and enunciate once more, and even more definitely than before, the principle of peace,
"immediate
peace
without
"I
victory."
can
say definitely" -remarked Rabbi Magnes "that the President of the United States, in a very short time, will issue an address to the
Governments, the burden of which will be a call to all belligerents to conclude an imme-
Allied
diate peace on the basis of no annexations and
indemnities.
He
is
going to invite
to a Peace Conference.
He
is
all
belligerents
going
an immediate peace on by the Bolsheviki in
This inside
is
no
the simple basis Russia." 1
demand laid down
to
a remarkable statement revealing the
story
of a
sinister
movement
in
which
the Jews of the world and Mr. Wilson have be-
come
partners.
Indeed, the allied blunders committed against Russia have a peculiar history of their own.
The Peace Conference was dominated by Mr. was natural to expect that with singular obstinacy he would try to enforce resolve to stand by Lenin and Trotzky to a
Wilson, and his his
it
logical end. 1
Rabbi Judas Magnes, address quoted
lished in the
New
in an article pubYork Times, April, 1918, entitled, "Says
Wilson Wants a Bolshevist Peace"
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