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No other single act YIN serve as this
VIII serve to restore confidence among
the nations in the laws which they
have themselves set and determined
for the government of their relations
with one another. Without this heal
ing act the whole structure and valid
1ty OF International law is forever
impaired
g. All French territory should be
freed and the invaded portions re-
stored. and the wrong done to France
by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of
Alsace-Loraine. which has unsettled
the peace of the world for nearly fifty
years. should be righted, in order that
peace once more be made secure in
the interest of all.
e A readjustment of the frontiers
OF Italy Should be effected along clear
~ reasona ole lines of nationality.
10. Tie peoples of Austria-Hun-
gary, wLSse place among the nations
we wis., to be safeguarded and as
sured, should be accorded the freest
opportunity of autonomous develop
ment
Balkxns to be Re-Established.
IL. Rumania, Serbia and Montene-
gro should be evacuated, occupied ter
ritories restored, Serbia accorded free
and secure access to the seas, and the
relations of the several Balkan states
to one another be determined nv
friendly counsel along historically es-
tablished lines of allegiance and ma
tionality, and international guarantees
OF the political and economic indepen-
for fol
several Balkan states should be en-
tered into
IL. The Turkish portions of the
present Ottoman empire should be as
sureo OF a secure sovereignty, but
the other nationalities which are now
under Turkish rule should be assured
an undoubted security of life and an
absolutely unmolested opportunity of
autonomous development, and the OAR
danelles should be permanently open
ed as a free passage to the ships and
commerce of all nations under inter-
national guarantees.
For a Free Poland.
Ii. An Independent Polish state
should be erected which should induce
the territories inhabited by indisput-
ably Polish populations, which should
be assured a free and secure access
to the sea, and whose political and
economic independence and territor-
al integrity should be guaranteed by
covenant
IA. A general association of nations
must be formed under specific cove
nants for the purpose of affording
mutual guarantees of political inde-
pendence and territorial integrity to
great and small states alike.
Omitted We Stand"
In regard to these essential rectifi-
cations of wrong and assertions of
right we feel ourselves to be intimate
partners of all the governments and
peoples associated together against
the imperiaIists.
I'VE cannot be separated in inter-
est or divided in purpose. We stand
together until the end
For such arrangements and cove
aants we are willing to fight and to
continue to fight until they are ach-
eved; but only because we wish the
right to prevail and desire a just and
stable peace, such as can be secured
only by removing the chief provoca-
lions to war, which this program does
remove.
Germans Equal, but Not Masters.
I'VE have no jealousy of German
greatness and there is nothing in this
program that impairs it. We grudge !
her no achievement or distinction of
earning or of pacific enterprise such
as have made her record very bright |
and very enviable.
I'VE do not wish to injure her or
10 block in any way her legitimate in
1uence of power. We do not wish to
light her either with arms OF with |
hostile arrangements of trade, if she |
s willing to associate herself with us |
md the other peace loving nations of |
he world in covenants of justice and |
aw and fair dealing.
I'VE wish Germany only to accept a
place of equality among the peoples |
Of the world-the new world in which |
We now live-instead of a place of |
Neither do we presume to suggest |
% her any alteration or modification |
# her institutions. But 1t is neces- |
'ary, we must frankly say, and neces- |
'ary as a preliminary to any intelIi- |
gent dealings with her on our part, |
hat we should know for whom her |
'pokesmen speak when they speak to |
IS. whether for the Reichstag major |
ty or for the military party, and the |
non whose creed iC imnorioJ <10nino