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 whether he accepts without qua.
 lificatiOn before the President
 replies to the latest peace pro.
 pOsals is as follows:
 l. Open covenants of peace, open ly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international under standing of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view
 ,. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial wa ters alike in peace and in war eX- cept as the seas may be closed in whole or ill part by international ac- tioE for the enforcement of inter- national covenants.
 5. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the es- tablishment of an equality of trade conditions among all nations con- senting to the peace and associat- ing themselves for it's maintenance.
 Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will sistent with domestic safety.
 D. A free minded and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observ- ance of the principle that in deter mining all such questions of soveri- egrty the interests of the popula- 'tiCns concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
 G. The evacuation of all Russian teerrritory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freeSt coOpera- tion of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unham- pered and unembarrassed opportuni- ty for the independent determina- tion of her own political develop ment and national policy and assure her of sincere welcome into the society of free nations under insti- tutions of her own choosing: and. more than welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister na- tioMs in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will of their comprehension of their needs as distinguished from their own in terests and of their intelligent and ] unselfish sympathy. .. q Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restor- ed without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in com mon with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in laws which they themselves set and deteTmlned for the government of their relations with one another. Without this heal ing act the whole structure and vali- dity of international law is forever impaired.
 s. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions res tored and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter ol Alsace-Lorraine, which has uhsetti- ed the peace of the world for nearly fifty years. should be righted. m order that peace may once more pc made secure in the interest or all. g. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be affected along clearly recognizable lines or natioh- ality.
 10. The peoples of Austria-Hun- gary, whose place among nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured should be accorded the freest oppor- tunity of autonomous development; II. Rumania, Serbia and Monte, negro should be evacuated; occupied territoy restored; Serbia accordea free and secure access to the sea- and the relations of the several bal- kan states to one another determln- ed by friendly counsel along n1s.oi- ,So; ance and nationality: and interna, tional guarantees of the political .',n and economic independence and territo- rial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered lnoo~o~ lnIo: Continued on page six)