In Our First Year of War

In Our First Year of War gathers messages and addresses to the Congress and the people, from March 5, 1917, to January 8, 1918, by Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States. The contents list names, among others, The Second Inaugural Address (March 5, 1917), We Must Accept War (Message to the Congress, April 2, 1917) and A State of War (The President's Proclamation of April 6, 1917).

A section headed Our National Platform begins with the statement that all nations are equally interested in the peace of the world and in the political stability of free peoples, and equally responsible for their maintenance. A reply that speaks of the moving appeal of His Holiness, the Pope, says that every heart that has not been blinded and hardened by this terrible war must be touched by it. A numbered list has a second item calling for absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.