13 APRIL 1918, Page 3

On the anniversary of America's entry into the war, President

Wilson delivered his first speech since his " utter disillusionment," following the disclosure of the peace terms exacted by Germany from Russia, Finland, the Ukraine, and Rumania. It was perhaps un- necessary for the President to call his fellow-countrymen to witness that he " has never judged the purposes of Germany intemperately." If he has erred in judgment, it has been rather in clinging over-long to illusions about Germany's war motives and to fine distinctions between the will and aims of Germany and of Kaiserism. But now the leaders of Germany have given President Wilson the answer he has long sought. By deeds, not words, they have avowed their aim—" not justice but dominion and the unhindered execution of their own will."