The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-08
r The evacuation of all Rue
III sian farrifarv and such a


settlement of all questions affect
ing Russia as will secure the best
and freest cooperation of the
other nations of the world in OBJ
tanning for her an unhampered
and unembarrassed opportunity
for the Independent determination
Of her own political development
and national policy and assure
her of sincere welcome into the
society of free nations under in
structions of her own choosing;
and, more than a welcome, assist
ance also of every kind that she
may need and may herself desire.
The treatment accorded Russia by
her sister nations in the months
to come will be the acid test of
their good will, OF their compre-
hension of her needs as distin-
guished from their own interests
and their intelligent and unself-
ish sympathy.
Y Belgium, the whole world
] will agree, must be evacuat-
ed and restored, without any at
tempt to limit the sovereignty
which she enjoys in common with
all other free nations. No other
single act will serve as this will
serve to restore confidence among
the nations in the laws which they
have themselves set and deter
mined for the government of
their relations with one another.
Without this healing act, the
whole structure and validity of in
ternational law is forever i'm
paired.
o All French territory should
y be freed and the invaded
portions restored and the wrong
done to France by Prussia in 1871
in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine,
which has unsettled the peace of
the world for nearly so years,
should be righted, In order that
peace may once more be made
secure in the interest of all.
q A readjustment Of the from
y tiers of Italy should be eff
fected along clearly recognizable
lines of nationality.
IN The peoples of Austria
~ Hungary, whose places
among the nations we wish to see
safeguarded and assured, should
be accorded the first opportunity
of autonomous development.
II Rumania, Serbia and Mon
u tenegro should be evacu-
ated; occupied territories re-
stored; Serbia accorded free and
secure access to the sea, and the
relations of the several Balkan
states to one another determined
by friendly counsel along histori-
cally established lines of allie
glance and nationality; and inter
national guarantees of the politi-
cal and economic independence
and territorial integrity of the
several Balkan states should be
entered into.
~ The Turkish portions oil
/ IL the present Ottoman EN-.
pire should be assured a secure
sovereignty, but the other ma
II tionalities which are now under
Turkish rule should be assured
an undoubted security of life and
an absolutely unmolested oppor.
tunity of autonomous develop
ment, and the Dardanelles should
be permanently opened as free
passage to the ships and com.
merce of all nations under inter
national guarantees.
| - An Independent Polish
| ID state should be erected
which should include the terri
tories inhabited by indisputably
Polish populations, which should
be assured a free and secure &C.
cess to the sea and whose politi-
cal and economic independence
and territorial integrity should be
guaranteed by international cove
nant.
IA A general association of
II nations must be formed
under specific covenants fer the
purpose of affording mutual guar
antees of political independence
and territorial integrity to
great and small states alike.
In regard to these essential
notifications of wrong and aesur-
ances of right we feel ourselves to