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which has hitherto known no relsntins

and yet their soul Is not subservient.
or IN action The conception Of what
honorable for them to accept. has BEEN
stated with a frankness, a iarReness of
view, a generosity of spirit and a uni
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:
mat we desire, in what. IL in anything
theirs; n believe that the people
OF the United States would wish me to
FfesPGnd with utter simplicity and
leaders believe 1T or not. it is our
heartfelt desire and hope that some
way may be opened whereby we may
be privileged to assist the people OF
Russia to attain their utmost hope of
iieG,ty and ordered peace.
that the processes OF peace, when they
are begun, shall be absolutely open and
that they shall involve and permit
of any kind. The day of tongues and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT is gone by: SO Is also
the day of secret covenants entered
ernments and likely at some unlocked
world.
TT is this happy fact, now clear to
the view of every public mar whose
thoughts do not still linger in an 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.
That World BE Safe.
w entered this war because viola
tons of right had occurred which
touched US to the quick and made the
ilte OF our own people impossible I'M
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secured once for all against their re-
currence. what we demand in this
war. therefore. is nothing peculiar to
made fit and safe to live In: and par
ticularly that 1T be made safe for every
peace-loying nation which. like our
mine its own institutions, be assured
of Justice and fair dealings by the
force and selfish aggression.
Al the peoples of the world are in
effect partners in this interest and for
unless Justice be done to others t viii
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 1t, is this:
y. Open covenants of peace. o0enly
arrived at, after which there shall be
no private international understand
ings of any kind but diplomacy h
lie view.
=. Absolute freedom OF navigation
upon the seas, 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
enforcement of international mi
20. The removal. so far as possible,
of economic barriers and the establish
ment of an equality Of trade condi-
tions among all the nations c~onsenting
to the peace and associating them
selves for its maintenance.
a. Adequate guarantees given and
AIKEN tina national manfa will he
reduced to the lowest point consistent
with domestic safety.
Adjustment of Colonial Claims.
"a; A free open-minded and abso-
lutely impartial adjustment of all colo
servance of the principle that In deter
mining all such questions of SOW
ereignty the interests of the popula-
lions concerned must have equal
weight with the equitable claims of
the government whose title is to be
determined.
&c. The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such a 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 ~unhampered and un-
embarrassed opportunity for the indie
political development and national pol
icy and assure her of q sincere well
come into the society of free nations
ing; and, more than a welcome, as
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 as
and OF their Intelligent and unselfish
sympathy.
~. Belgium. the whole world will
agree, must be evacuated and restored
without any attempt to limit the SOW
erelgnty which she enjoys in common
with all other free nations. No other
single act will serve as this will serve
to restore confidence among the ma
tions in the laws which they have
themselves set and determined for the
another. without this healing act. the
whole structure and validity of inter
national law is forever impaired.
ALsace-LOrrnine Must He Settled.
IS. All French territory should be
freed and the invaded portions re-
by Prussia in 1871 In the matter of
Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled
the peace of the world for nearly fifty
peace may once more be made secure
80. A read1ustment of the frontiers
of Italy should be effected along clear
ly recognizable lines of nationality.
10. The peoples OF Austrta-HunEary
whose place among the nations we
should be accorded the freest opportu-
nifty of autonomous development.
IL. Rumania, Montenegro and Ser
bia should be ~evacuated; 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 allie glance and nationality. and
international guarantees of the polit-
ical and economic independence and
territorial integrity of the several Bal
kan states should be entered into.
"12. The r portions of tho
sured a secure sovereignty, but the
other ~nationalities which are now un-
DER turkish rule should pc an
solutely unmolested opportunity OF au-
tonomous development. and the Oar
as a free passage to the ships and
of all nations under inter-