The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-10-18
WILSON'S PEACE
TERMS WHICH THE
GERMANS ACCEPT
AL Invaded Territory to Be
Evacuated and Freedom OF
Seas TO All Nations.
Belgium 10 Be Restored, French Terri
tory Freed, independent Polish
State Erected and Russia Given
Chance 10 Become Free Nation.


The fourteen terms Of peace set
down by President Wilson In his adj
dress Of January 3, and accepted by
the Germans, and the additional -four
points outlined by him In his Mt
Vernon speech Of July A, are as fol-
lows:
!. Open covenants Of peace, openly
arrived at after which there shall be
no private international understand
ings Of any kind but diplomacy shall
proceed always frankly and In the pub
lie view.
Al. Absolute freedom Of navigation
upon the sens, outside territorial wa
tiers, alike In peace and In war, except
as the seas may be closed In whole or
IN part by international action for the
enfOrcemenut Of international coven-
| ants
Ill. The removal, so far as pos
sible, Of all economic barriers and the
establishment of an equality of trade
conditions among all the nations con
senting to the peace and associating
themselves for Its maintenance.
Nv. Adequate guarantees given and
taken that national ornaments will be
reduced to the lowest points consistent
with domestic safety.
v. A free, open-mlnded and abso-
lutely impartial adjustment of all CO.
l0nial claims, based upon strict OBJ
servance of the principle that in deter
mining all such questions of sover-
eighty the interests of the populations
concerned must have equal weight
with the equitable claims of the gov
eminent whose title is 10 be deter
mined.
vi. The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such settlement of all
questions affecting Russian territory
and a settlement of all questions af-
Fectlng Russia as will secure the best
and freest cooperation of the other
nations of the world In obtaining for
her an unhampered and unembarrassed
opportunity for the independent deter
minatlon of her own political develop
nent and national policy and assure
her OF sincere welcome into the so
clety of free nations under institutions
~ her ows choosing and, more than
n welcome, assistance also of every
kind that she may need and may her
self 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 distinguished
from their own interests, and of their
intelligent and unselfish sympathy.
VII 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
single act win serve as this will serve
to restore confidence among the ma
tions In the laws which they have
themselves set and determined with
one another. Without this healing act
the whole structure and validity of
international law Is forever impaired
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
Alsace-Lorralne 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.
TX. A reimbursement of the frontiers
| of Italy should be effected along clear
~ recognizable lines of nationality.
X. The peoples OF Austria Hungary,
whose place among the nations we
wish to see safeguarded and assured,
should he accorded the freest oppor-
tuuity of autonomous development.
nj. Rumania, Serbia and Monten.
egro should be evacuated; occupied
territories restored; Serbia accorded
free ard secure access To the sea; and
the relations of the several Balkan
states TO one another determined by
friendly counsel along historically IS.
tahllshed lines OF allegiance and ma.
tionality and international guarantees
Of the political and economic indepen
lence aud territorial integrity of the
several Balkan states should be en-
tered into.
MI. The Turkish portions of the
present Ottoman empire should be as
sured a secure sovereignty, but the
other nationalities which are now un
der Turkish rule should be assured NJ
undoubted security of life and an alb
solutely unmolested opportunity o
autonomous development, aid the Oar
daneiIes should be permanently opened
as free passage to the ships an,