The Congress expresses its gratitude to the American people and first and foremost to the toiling and exploited classes of the North American United States with regard to the expression of sympathy by President Wilson toward the Russian people, through the Congress of Soviets, in those days when the Soviet Socialist Republic of Russia is undergoing severe trials.

Having become a neutral country, the Russian Soviet Republic takes the opportunity of President Wilson's address to it in order to express to all peoples perishing and suffering from the horrors of the imperialist war its heartfelt sympathy and firm conviction that the happy time is not far distant when the toiling masses of all bourgeois countries will cast off the yoke of capital and establish a socialist organization of society, the only one capable of ensuring a lasting and just peace, as well as culture and well-being for all toilers.

Written March 14, 1918