Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-01-08
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PROCESSES OF PEACE
MUST BE OPEN.

by; so is also the day of secret cove
nants entered into in h interest of
particular governments and likely at
some unlooked-for moment to upset
the peace Of the world. 1t 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 it possible for
every nation whose purposes are con-
sistent with justice and the peace Of
the world to avoW now or at any 9TH
er time the objects it has in view.
OUR RIGHTS VIOLATED,
SO WI WENT TO WAR.
we entered this war because viola
tons Of right had occurred which
touched us to the quick and made the
life of u own people impossible un-
less they were corrected and the
world secured once for all against
their recurrence. What we demand in
this war, therefore, is nothing pecu-
be made fit IN safe to live in; and
particularly that it be made safe for
every peace-loving nation which, like
u own, wishes to live its own life,
determine its own institutions, be as
sured Of justice and fair dealing by
the other peoples Of the world as
against force and selfish aggression.
All the peoples Of the world are in
effect partners in this interest and for
our own part we see very clearly that
unless Justice. be done to others 1t
will not be done to us. The program
of h worlds peace, therefore, is our
program, and that program, the only
OPEN COVENANTS
OF PEACE.
II. Open covenants of peace, OPP
emily arrived at, after which there
shall be no private international I'M
derstandings of any kind but dipio-
macy shall proceed always frankly
and in the public view.
III. Absolute freedom of naviga-
ton upon h seas. outside territorial
waters. alike in peace and in war, ex-
cer, as the seas may be closed in
whole or in part by international ac-
ton io- the enforcement of interna-
iona.
III The removal. so far as posi-
bic. OF al. economic barriers and the
establishment OF all equality OF trade
conditions among all the nations con-
senss2E 80 the peace and associating
themselves for It's maintenance.
~ Adequate guarantees given
and taken .rat national ornaments
n3:: he reduced 30 the lowest point
~.s SSI.Ict.G lC safety.
~. a free. open minded, and alb
soluiesS impartial adjustment Of all
%colon!a! Claims. based upon a strict
observance % the principle that in
determining all such questions of
Sovereignty ;ss interests of the popu-
lauoas concerned must have equal
weight with the equitable claims of
the government whose title is to be
determined.
w. The evacuation Of all Russian
territory and such a settlement of all
questions affecting Russia as will Sc
cure the best n freesc cooperation
OF the other nations OF the world in
obtaining for her an unhampered and
unenlharEassed opportunity for the
independent determination of her
own political development and ma
tional policy and assure her of a sin
cere 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 sis.
ter nations in h months to come will
be the acid test of their good will, OF
their comprehension of her needs as
distinguished from their own inter.
ests. and OF their intelligent and un.
selfish sympathy.
BELGIUM MUST
BE EVACUATED.
WI. Belgium. the whole worlt
Will agree, must be evacuated and re.
stored. h any attempt to limit
the sovereignty which she enioys ir
common with all other free nations
NO other single act will serve as thi:
Will serve to restore confidence amone
the nations in the laws which the,
nave themselves set and determined
for the government of their relation,
with n another. Without this heal
ing act the whole structure and validi
ty of international law is forever i'm
paired.
VIII. All French territory shoult
be freed and the invaded portions re
stored. aid the wrong done to Franc,
by Prussia in 1871 in the matter O
Alsace-Lorraine. which has unsettle,
the of the world for nearly fit,
years, should be righted, in order tina
peace may once more be made secur
in the interests of all.
'lA A readjustment of the from
tiers of Italy should be effected alon,
clearly recognizable lines of national
ity.
Observation-Disclosures
MUST BE SAFEGUAEDED.
*. The peoples Of Austria-Hun
: gary, whose place anon the nation
!. we wish to see safeguarded and as
! sured. should be accorded the frees
: opportunity Of autonomous devotion
t ment.
e III. Rumania. Serbia and Monte
e negro should be evacuated: occunie
: territories restored: Serbia accorde
Tree n secure access to the sea: an
the relations of the several Balko
: states to n another determined h
: friendly counsel along historically es
tapllshed lines of allegiance and ma
I tionallty; and international guaran
+ tees OF the political and economic in
dependence and territorial integrit
: Oh the several Balkan states should b
c entered into. =
XII. The Turkish portions of til
t present Ottoman empire should be As
e sured a secure sovereignty, but TN
other nationalities which are now mr.
der Turkish rule should be assured a
undoubtedly security Of life and a
absolutely unmolested opportunity {
autonomous development, and I'll
G Dardanelles should be
e opened as A free passage to the shj,
and commerce of all nations md
international guarantees.
INDEPENDENT POLISH
STATE DEMANDED.
XIII. An independent Polls
state should be erected Which Shout
include the territories inhabited i
~indisputable Polish populations whic
should be assured a free and secul
access to the sea and whose politic,
and indeDendence aud to.r