Woodrow Wilson: “We are the champions of peace and of concord.”

The burdens of war are not lifted when the fighting ceases.

We have been vigorously building up a great merchant marine and providing for improvement of marketing in foreign countries by the passage of an export trade law.

I suggest to my fellow-countrymen that the circles around their Christmas trees will be incomplete unless, mingled with their own expectant children, they shall visualize some of the waifs of Central Europe.

I herewith call your attention to an agreement with Belgium made by the British and French Premiers and myself.