The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-18
PEACE PLAN AS
FORMULATED BY
The PRESIDENT
Cardinal Points of His An.
nouncement to Congress
January 8, 1918.
From the Address to Congress, Jan.
8. 1881

8, 1881
The program Of the worlds peace.
therefore, is our program; and that
program, the only possible program.
as We see it, is this:
I.-Open covenants of peace, openly
arrived at, after which there shall be
no private international understand
ing of any kind but diplomacy shall
proceed always frankly and in the
public view.
II.-Absolute freedom of navigation
upon the seas, outside territorial wa
tiers, alike in peace and in war, ex-
cept as the seas may be closed in
whole or in part by international &C
ton for the enforcement of interna-
tional covenants.
III.-The removal, so far as possible,
of all economic barriers and the es-
Establishment of an equality of trade
conditions among all the nations con-
senting to the peace and associating
themselves for it's maintenance.
Inadequate guarantees given and
taken that national ornaments will
be reduced to the lowest point con-
sistent with domestic safety.
!. V.-Free, open-minded, and abso-
lutely impartial adjustment Of all COL
oinal claims, based upon a strict ob-
servance of the principle that in de-
termining all such questions of SOW
ereignty the interests of the popula-
lions concerned must have equal
weight with the equitable claims of
the government whose title is to be
determined.
VI.-The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such a settlement of all
questions affecting Russia as will Sc
cure the best and freest cooperation
of the other nations of the world in
obtaining for her an unhampered and
unembarrassed opportunity for her in
dependent determination of her own
political development and national
policy, and assure her Of a sincere
welcome into the society of free ma
tions under institutions of her own
choosing; and, more than a welcome,
assistance 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 comprehension of her
needs as distinguished from their own
| interests, and of their intelligent and
unselfsh sympathy.
| VII-Belgium, the whole world will
agree, must be evacuated and re-
stoned, without any attempt 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 determined
for the government of their relations
| with one another. Without this heal
ing act the whole structure and valid
itv of international law is forever i'm
paired.
VIII.-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
A1sace-Lorraine, which has unsettled
the peace of the world for nearly 90
years, should be righted, in order that
peace may once more be made secure
in the interest of all.
X.-A readjustment of the frontiers
of Italy should he effected along clear
ly recognizable lines of nationality.
X.-The peoples of Austria-Hun-
gary, whose place among the nations
we wish to see safeguarded and as
sured, should be accorded the freest
opportunity of autonomous develop
ment.
XI-Rumania, Serbia and Monten
legro should be evacuated; occupied
territories restored; Serbia accorded
free and secure access to the sea; ant
the relations of the several Balkan
States to one another determined by
friendly counsel along historically es
tablished lines of. allegiance and ma
tionality; and international guaran
tees of the political and economic in
dependence and territorial integrity O
the several Balkan States should b.
entered into.
XII.-The Turkish portions of tn
present Ottoman Empire should b
assured a secure sovereignty, but tn
other nationalities which are now I'm
der Turkish rule should be assured a.
undoubted security of life and an alb
solutely unmoiested opportunity O
: autonomous development, and tn
: Dardanelles should be permanent
opened as a free passage to the ship
of commerce of all nations under in
ternational guarantees.
XITI.-An Independent Polish Stat
should be erected which should in
clude the territories inhabited by ir
disputably Polish populations, whic
should be assured a free and seeur
access to the sea, and whose politics
L and economic independence and tel
ritoria1 INTEGRITY should be guarantee
by international covenant.
XIV.-A general association Of na
l tons must be formed under specif
covenants for the purpose of afford
y ing mutual guarantees of political il
. dependence and territorial integrity
great and small States alike.