Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-09

cellor now is asked to say whethe
he accepts without qualification. be
fore the President replies to the lates
peace proposal, is as follows:
1. Open covenants of peace.
, Openly arrived at. after which
there shall be no private interna-
tional understanding of any kind.
but diplomacy shall proceed always
frankly and in the public view.
=. Absolute freedom of navi-
cation upon the seas, outside ter
ritorial waters alike in peace and
in war except as the seas may be
closed in whole or in part by In
ternational action for the en-
forcement of international cove
nants.
8. The removal, so far as posi-
BILE. of all economic barriers and
the establishment of an equality of
trade conditions among all nations
consenting to the peace and asso-
ciating themselves for it's mainte-
nance.
4. Adequate guarantees given
and taken that national ornaments
will he reduced to the lowest point
consistent with domestic safety.
5. A free, open-minded and abb
solutely impartial adjustment OF
all colonial claims. based upon
strict observance of the principle
that in determining all such ques-
lions of sovereignty the interests
of the populations concerned must
have equal weight with the equi-
table claims of the government
whose title is to be determined.
s. The evacuation of all Rus
sian territory and such settle
ment of all questions affecting
Russia as will secure the best and
freeSt cooperation of the other
nations of the world in obtaining
for her an unhampered and UNI
embarrassed opportunity for the
independent determination of her
own political development and ma
tional policy and assure her of
sincere welcome into the society
of free nations 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 ma
tionS 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 interests and of their intelli-
gent and unselfish sympathy.
Z. Belgium. the whole world will
agree. must be evacuated and re-
stored. without any attempt to
limit the sovereignty 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 themselves
have set and determined for the
government of their relations with
one another. Without this heal
ing act the whole structure and
validity of international law is for
ever impaired.
S. All French territory should be
freed and the invaded portions re-
stored. and the wrong done to
French by Prussia in 1871 in the
matter of Alsace-Lorraine. which
has unsettled the peace of the
be riGhted, in order that peace may
once more be made secure in the
interest Of all.
2. \ REIMBURSEMENT of the from
tiers of Italy should be effected
along clearly recognizable lines of
nationality.
10. The peoples of Austria Hun
gary. whose place among nations
we wish to see safeguarded and
assured. should be accorded the
freest opportunity of autonomous
development.
II. Rumania. Serbia and Mon
teneCro should be evacuated; occu-
pied territories restored: Serbia
accorded free and secure access to
the sea and the relations of the
several Balkan states to one an
s1@< ~, f,-s.
Sci along historically established
lines of allegiance and nationality:
and international guarantees of
the political and economic indie
pendence and territorial integrity
of the several Bankan states
should be entered into.
II. The Turkish portions of the
present Ottoman empire should be
assured secure sovereignty. But
the other nationalities which are
now under Turkish rule should be
assured an undoubted security of
life and an absolutely unmolested
opportunity of autonomous devel-
opment. And the Dardanelles
should be permanently opened as
free passage to the ships and
commerce of all nations under in
ternational guarantees.
13. An independent Polish state
should be erected which should
include the territories inhabited
by indisputably Polish popula-
free and secure access to the sea,
and whose political and economic
independence and territorial in
tegrity should be guaranteed by
international covenant.
II. A general association of
nations must be formed under spe-
cific covenants for the purpose of
affording mutual guarantees of
political independence and terri
torial integrity to great and small
states alike.
Terms Given in February.
In an address to Congress on Feb
ruary IL. 1918. President Wilso
enumerated the principles whic
must be applied to any further ex
changes of view between govern
mentS." as follows:
l. That each part of the final settle
ment must be based upon the essentia
justice of that particular case an
upon such adjustments as are mos
likely to bring a peace that will b
permanent
2. That peoples and provinces ar
not to be bartered about from SOW
ereignty to sovereignty as If the
were mere chattels and pawns in
game. even the great game. now fore
ever discredited. of the balance @
power: but that
3. Every territorial settlement in
volyed in this war must be made /
the interest and for the benefit Of tn
populations concerned, and not as
part of any mere adjustment or com
promise of claims amongst rivs
states: and
4. That all we'll defined nations
aspirations shall be accorded the ut
most satisfaction that can be accord
ed them without introducing new O
perpetuatinE old elements of discor
and antagonism that would be likel
in time to break the peace of Europ
and consequently of the world.
Mount Vernon Speech.
On July 4, 1918. in an address a
Mount Vernon. President Wilson said
These are the ends for which tn