Description
The first edition of A League For Peace: Address of the President of the United States by Woodrow Wilson, delivered before the United States Senate on January 22, 1917. Known as the “Monroe Doctrine for the World Speech.”
Octavo, 8pp. Printed wraps, not bound at the spine. Speech delivered before the 64th Congress, 2d Session. This is document No. 685. Housed in a custom blue cloth clamshell, title stamped in gilt over black morocco on the spine. A fine example. (Turnbull, 517)
A League for Peace was delivered by President Wilson to the Senate on January 22, 1917, while the United States was still formally neutral in the First World War. The speech was called the “peace without victory” and the “Monroe Doctrine for the World” address. In that address, Wilson argued that a durable settlement could not rest on the humiliation of the defeated, but instead required peace among equals, freedom of the seas, reduced armaments, and a broader international arrangement by which nations would jointly guarantee political independence and territorial integrity.
