The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-01-08
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very clearly that unless justice
done to others il will not done I
us. The program of the worlds peac
is our program; and ths
program, the only possible program
as we see it, is this:
PROGRAM FOLLOWS.
I. Open covenants of peace,
openly arrived at, after which
there shall be no private interna-
tional Understandings Of any kind,
but diplomacy shall proceed
always frankly and in the public
view.
2. Absolute freedom Of naviga-
ton upon the seas, outside terri
torial waters, alike in peace and
in war, except as the seas may
be closed in whole or in part by
international action for the err.
foreement Of international COW
enants.
3. The removal, so far as pos
sible, tf all economic barriers and
the establishment of an equality
of trade conditions among all til,
nations consenting to the peace
and assooiatirg themselves for it's
maintenance.
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and taken that national armaments
will be reduced to the lowest point
consistent with domestic safety.
,. A tree, open minded and
absolutely impartial adjustment
of all colonial claims, based upon
a strict observance of the prin-
ciple that in determining all such
questions Of sovereignty the in
terests of the populations con-
cerned must have equal weight
with the equitable claims Of the
government whose title is to be de-
termined.
6. The evacuation of all Rus
sian territory and such settle
nnent of all questions affecting
Russia as will secure the best and
freest CO operation OF the other
nations of the world in obtaining
for her an unhampered and unem-
barrassed opportunity for the i~s 4
dependent determInssSen .of. her.
own political deveIopsrsnt and
national policy and assure hef'of
a sincere welcome into the society
of free nations under Institutions
or her own choosing, and more
than welcome assistance of
every kind that she may need and
may herself desire. The treat
ment accorded Russia by her sister
nations in the months to come will
be the acid test of their good will,
of their comprehension Of her needs
as distinguished from their own
interests, and of their intelligent
and unselfish sympathy.
7. Belgium, the whole world will
agree, must be evacuated and re-
stored without any attempt to
limit the severe ignty which she en-
Joys 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 them
selves set and determined for the
government of their rlations with
one another. Without this heal
ina act the whole structure and
validity OF international law is
forever impaired.
8. All French territory should
be freed and the invaded portions
restored, and the wrong done to
France by Prussia in 1877 in the
matter of Alsace- Lorraine, which
has unsettled the peace of the
world for nearly fifty years, should
be righted, in order that peace
may once more be made secure in
the interest of all.
9. A readiustment Of the from
tiers of Italy should be effected
along clearly recognizable lines of
nationality.
10. The peoples Of Austria
Hungary, whose place among the
nations we wish to see safeguarded
and assured, should be accorded
the freeset opportunity Of autono-
nous development.
II. Rumania, Serbia and Monte
negro should be evacuated; occu-
pied territory restored; Serbia ac-
corded free and secure access to
the sea; and the relations of the
several Balkan states TO one an
other determined by friendly
counsel along historically estab-
lished lines Of allegiance and ma
tionaIity; and international guar
sntees of the political and economic
Independence and territorial in
tegrity of the several Balkan
states should be entere1 into.
IL. The Turkish portions Of the
present Ottoman empire should be
assured a secure sovereignty, but
The other nationalities which are
now und,r Turkish rule should be
assured an undoubted security of
ife and an absolutely unmolested
Of autonomous de-
and the Dardanelles
should be permanently opened as
Tree passage to the ships and COM
nerce Of all nations under interna-
.ionsl guarantees.
10. An independent Polish state
Ihould be erected which should in