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which has hitherto known no relentin
and no pity.
Power Apparently Is shattered.

ana no pity
Power Apparently Is Shattered.
Their power apparently is shattered
and yet their soul is not subservient
They will not yield either in principle
or In action. The conception of what
honorable for them to accept. has been
stated with a frankness, larSeness of
view, generosity of spirit and uni
versal human sympathy which must
challenge the admiration of every
friend of mankind; and they have re-
fused to compound their Ideals or de-
sert others that they themselves may
be safe.
that we desire. In what. If in anything
our purpose and our spirit differ from
theirs; and I believe tha, The, the people
frankness. Whether their. present
way may be opened whereby we may
he privileged to assist the people of
ut will be our wish and purpose
are begun, shall be absolutely open and
that they shall involve and permit
henceforth no secret UNDERSTANDINGS
ACKNOWLEDGMENT is gone by; so is also
the day of secret covenants entered
into in the interest of particular gov
ernments and likely at some unlocked
world.
the view of every public man whose
thoughts do not still linger in age
that is dead and gone, which makes 1t
possible for every nation whose pur-
poses are consistent with justice and
the peace of the world to avow now or
at any other time the objects 1t has In
view.
Demands That world He Safe.
I'VE entered this war because viola
tions of right had occurred which
touched us to the quick and made the
Of la ltata a l.l
less they were corrected and the world
secured once for all against their re-
war. therefore, is nothing peculiar to
ourselves. 1t Is that the world be
made fit and safe to live in; and par
ticularly that it be made safe for every
peace loving nation which. like our
own, wishes to live its own life, deter
mine its own institutions, be assured
of Justice and fair dealings by the
other peoples of the world against
force and selfish aggression.
.All the peoples of the world are In
effect partners in this interest and for
our own part we see very clearly that
unless Justice be done to others 1t will
not be done to us. The program of
the worlds peace, therefore, is our
program, and that program, the only
possible program, as we see it, is this:
Il. Open covenants of peace, onenly
arrived at, after which there shall be
no private international understand.
lngs of any kind but diplomacy shall
proceed always frankly and in the pub
20. Absolute freedom OF navigation
upon the seas, outside territorial wa
ters. alike in peace and in war, except
as the seas may be closed in whole or
in part by international action for the
enforcement of international covenants.
%. The removal, so far as possible,
of economic barriers and the establish
tioIs among all the nations consenting
to the peace and associating them
selves for it's maintenance,
-. Adequate guarantees given and
taken that national armamentS Will be
reduced to the lowest point consistent
with domestic safety.
Adjustment of Colonial Claims.
"5: free. open-minded and abso-
lutely impartial adjustment of all colo
nial claims. based upon strict OBJ
servance of the principle that in deter
ereignty the interests of the popula-
tions concerned must have equal
weight with the equitable claims of
determined.
sc. The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such settlement of all
questions affecting Russia as will Sc
cure the best and freest cooperation of
the other nations of the world in OBJ
tanning for her an unhampcred and un-
embarrassed opportunity for the indie
pendent determination of her own
political development and national pol
icy and assure her of a sincere well
come into the society of free nations
under institutions of her own choos
ing; and, more than welcome,
sistance also of every kind that she
may need and may herself desire. The
Treatment accorded Russia by her sis,
ter nations in the months to come Will
be the acid test of their good will. of
their comprehension of her needs
distinguished from their own interests
and OF their intelligent and unselfish
sympathy.
"7. Belgium. the whole world will
agree. must be evacuated and restored
without any attempt to limit the SOW
ereignty which she enjoys in common
with all other free nations. No other
gTt r1n .f hi
to restore confidence among the ma
ttons in the laws which they have
set ;b ana determned f1r the
another. Without this healing act. the
whole structure and validity of inter
national law is forever impaired.
AIsace-Lorrnine Must he Settled.
IS. 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
the peace of the world for nearly fifty
years, should be righted, in order that
In the interest of ALL
80. A readtustment of the frontiers
of Italy should be effected along clear
ly recognizable lines OF nationality.
10. The peoples of Austria Hungary
wish to see safeguarded and assured,
should be accorded the freest opportu-
nifty of autonomous development.
II: Rumania, Montenegro and Ser
bIa bnsulu De occupied ter
ritories restored 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 historically established
lines of allegiance and nationality, and
international guarantees of the pollt-
ical and economic Independence and
territorial Integrity of the several Bal
kan states should be entered into.
'12. The Turkish portions of the
present ottoman empire should be
sured a secure. sovereignty. but the
other nationalities which are now un-
der Turkish rule should be assured an
undoubted security of life and an alb
solutely unmolested opportunity of au-
tonomous development, and the Dar-
danelles should be permanently opened
as free passage to the ships and