The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-14

Below are printed the rs peace points
set forth by President Wilson, Ia of
them being put forward in his address
to congress Jan, s, four of them cited in
his address of Feb. ii, and five of them
outlined in the course of his speech in the
Metropolitan opera house in New York
city Sept. u.
Following are the IA peace essentials
mentioned in the Jan. speech:
1.-Open covenants of peace, openly ar
rived at, after which there shall be no
private international understandings of
any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed
always frankly and in the public view.
absolute freedom of navigation
upon the seas, outside territorial waters,
talke in peace and IN war, except as the
seas may be called in whole or in part
by international action for the enforce
ment Of international covenants.
3..The removal so far as possible, of
all economic barriers and the establish
ment of an equality of trade conditions
among all the nations consenting to the
peace and associating themselves for its
maintenance.
adequate guarantees given and
taken that national ornaments will re-
duce to the lowest point consistent with
domestic safety.
5.-Free, open minded, and absolutely
+, impartial adjustment of all colonial
claims, based upon a strict observance of
the principle that in determining all
such questions of sovereignty the inter
ests of the population concerned must
have equal weight with the equitable
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to be determined
6.-The evacuation of all Russian ter
ritory and such settlement of all ques-
tions affecting Russia as will secure the
/ best and freest cooperation of the other
nations of the world in obtaining for her
an unhampered and -unembarrassed OPP
portunity for the independent determine,
/ ton of her own political Development and
national policy, and assure her of sin
lcere welcome into the society of free ma
tions under institutions of her owl
choosing and, more than a welcome, as
sistance also of every kind that she may
need and may herself desire. The treat
ment accorded Russia BY her sister ma
tions in the months to GENE. viii be the
acid test of their good win, of their com
prehension of her needs as distinguished
from their own interests, and of Their
intelligent and tinselish sympathy.
belgium, the whole world viii
agree, must be evacuated and restored
without any attempt to limit the GOV
ereignty which she enjoys in common
with all other free nations. No othel
single act viii serve as this will serve L
restore confidence among the nations il
the laws which they have themselves se
and determined for the government o
their relations with one another. With
out this healing act the whole structur,
and validity of international law is for
ever impaired.
S.-All French territory should b,
freed and the invaded portions restored
and the wrong done to France by Prtissis
in 1871 in the matter of Alsace- Lorraine
which has unsettled the peace of tn,
world for nearly so years, should b,
righted in order that peace may ono,
more be made secure in the interest o
all
"a readjustment of the frontiers o
Italy should be effected along clearly rec
ognizable lines of nationality.
l0.-The people of Austria Hungary
whose place among the nations we wis
to see safeguarded and assured, shout,
he accorded the freest opportunity o
autonomous development.
Rumania. Serbia, and Montenegr
should be eyacuated occupied territorie
restored; Serbia accorded free and sc
cure access to the sea; and the relation
. of the several Balkan states to one an
other determined by friendly counse
along historically established lines o
; allegiance and nationality; and interna