The Collected Library, Including Americana and Early Photography

New Haven, December 4, 1917. One sheet, 10 1/2 x 8 in. (267 x 203 mm.) Typed letter signed by former President William H. Taft, to the President of Washington & Jefferson College, Wilbur Jones Kay. In part: "... I speak on the League to Enforce Peace, but I go out of my way to make it clear that the League to Enforce Peace, of which I am President, makes it a condition precedent to any operation of its program that Germany shall be beaten. We cannot have a league to Enforce Peace...unless we have whipped the Germans into a property attitude towards treaties, until we have made them amenable to considerations of honor and decency by teaching them that militarism and preparation for half a century to dominate the world is not a successful philosophy..." Creasing from old folds, adhesive residue on verso of left margin.

Former President William Howard Taft boldly states his view of the German Empire, in the midst of World War I.

The League to Enforce Peace was founded in 1915, with Taft serving as the group's first president. It was comprised by of notable American politicians, academics, and religious leaders, who promoted the idea of establishing an international organization for world peace.