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} 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. Unless this heal
ing act is performed the whole struc-
ture and validity of international law
is forever impaired.
Free France.
s. 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-Lorraine, which has unsettled
the peace of the world for nearly so
years, should be righted in order that
peace may once more be made secure
in the interest of all.
Restore Italy.
8. A readjustment of the frontiers
of Italy should be effected along
clearly recognizable lines of nation
atty.
Aid Austria-Hungary.
10. The people 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.
Pacify Balkans.
IL. Rumania, Serbia and Monte
negro should be evacuated; occupied
territories restored; Serbia accorded
free and secure access to the seas
and the relations of the several Bal.
kan states to one another determined
by friendly counsel along historically
established lines of allegiance and
nationality, and international guar
antees of the political and economic
independence and territorial integrity
of the several. Balkan states should
be entered into.
Restrain Turkey.
II. The Turkish portions of the
present Ottoman empire should be as
sured 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 |
development, and the |
Dardanells should be permanently |
opened as free passage to the ships
and commerce of all nations under
guarantees.
Establish Poland.
10. An independent Polish state
should be erected, which should in
clude the territories inhabited by in
Polish populations, which
should be assured a free and secure
access to the sea and whose political
and economic independence and terri
,orial Integrity should be guaranteed
~ international covenant.
League of Nations.
IA. A general association of ma
ions must be formed under specific
covenants for the purpose of afford
ng mutual guarantees of political in
dependence and territorial integrity
o great and small states alike.
Stand Together.
In regard to these essential ratiff. !.
atoms of wrong and assertions of
light we feel ourselves to be intimate
artners of all the governments and
copies associated together against
he imperialiSts. We cannot be sepa-
ated in interest or divided in pur-
ose. We stand together until the Y
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For such arrangements and cove ;
ants we are willing to fight and to
ontinue to fight until they are
chieved; but only because we wish I
ne right to prevail and desire a lust Q
nd stable peace, such as can be Sc n
ured only by removing the chief S
rovocations to war, which this pro- f
ram does remove. We have no
ealousy of her greatness and there
nothing in this program that i'm il
airs it. We grudge her no achieve u
ent or distinction of learning or of g
acific enterprise such as have made "
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able. We do not wish to iniure her =
: to block in any way her legitimate
fluence or power. We do not wish T.
fight her either with arms or with C
1stile arrangements of trade, if she
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the world in covenants of justice =
Id law and fair dealing. We wish o
ar only to accept a place of equality II
nong the peoples of the world, the W
wv world In which we now live, in a
cad Of a place of mastery. II
No Further Doubt. Il
Neither do we presume to sugeest y
her any alteration or modification 81
her institutions. But It is neces-
ry, we must frankly say, and neces- III
ry as preliminary to any intel o,
gent dealings with her on our part. n.
at we should know whom her =
okesmen speak for when they speak
us, whether for the reichstag ma M
rity or for the military party, and Oh
e men whose creed is imperial ii
animation. IL
We have spoken now, surely, in fiji
rms too concrete to admit of any a,
rther doubt of the question. An evil -
mt principle runs through the whole az
ogram | have outlined. 1t is the III
inciple OF justice to all peoples and
tionalities and their right to live on
ual terms of liberty and safety with