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PEN|TENTIARY


ing peace, as outlined in President Wi
son s address on January of this yea
are as follows:
tE Open covenants Of peace, openl
arrived at, in which there shall be no pr
vate international understandings o
any kind but diplomacy shall procee,
always frankly and in the public view
n 2EAbsolute freedom of navigation
y upon the seas, outside territorial waters
alike in peace and in war, except a.
the seas may be closed in whole OF il
o part by international action for the en-.
fOrcement 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 be
reduced to the lowest point consistent
with domestic safety.
"a free, open-minded and absolu
tely 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 populations concerned must
have equal weight with the equitable
claims of the government whose title is
to be determined.
6-The evacuation of all Russian ter
ritory and such a 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
opportunity for the independent deter
mination of her own political develop
ment and national policy and insure her
of a sincere welcome into the society
of free nations under institutions of her
own choosing; and, more than wei
come, assistance also of every kind that J
she may need and may herself desire. O
The treatment accorded Russia by her
sister nations in the months to come will =
be the acid test of their own interest, .
and of their intelligent and unselfish n
sympathy. a
Belgium, the whole world will
agree, must be evacuated and restored Ii
without any attempt to limit the sover- ST
eighty which she enjoys in common m
with all other free nations No other
single act will serve as this well serve to
estOre confidence among the nations in =;
he laws which they themselves have -
ct and determined for the government -
f their relations with one another &c
Without this healing act, the whole ~
tructure and validity of international :.
wv is forever impaired.
S-All French territory should be
reed and the invaded portions restor-
/ and the wrong done to France by -.
russia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace- =
Drraine, which has unsettled the peace
the world for nearly fifty years,
ould be righted in order that peace . 4
ay once more be made secure in the .
terest of all. .
"A readiustment of the frontier of
ally should be effected along clearly
,ognizable lines of nationality
l0-The peoples of Austria Hungary,
lose place among the nations we wish
see safeguarded and assured, should
accorded the freest opportunity of .17
-onomous development. -
Serbia and Montenegro ~
)uld be evacuated; occupied terri
les restored; Serbia accorded free and
IRE access to the sea; and the re-
ions of the several Balkan states to
another determined by friendly IL
nsel alone historically as+abl;sbed athe
IS of allegiance and nationality. and DC
national oo,orontoos 90 +ho ,ol;.iaaI year
eoonomic inaenenaenoo ond -; The
al intaorit, &c .ho sa,,oro1 poli.o, and
90 sbouIa be on+erod INFO ment
2-The Turkish portions of the pres IN
O++oman eronira shoula ~ -, held
ecure sovereignty, but the other were
Qualities which are now an absolu- YIN"
unmolested opportunity of autono-
$ development, and the Dardanelles La
Id be permanently opened as free 'o'oh
age to the ships and commerce of an" ;
o+ions rnaor ;,,.orno.;,,,o1 -. of VIZ
freshi
An Independent Polish state pun
Id be erected which should include e'' ~
erritories inhabited by indisputably -"
h populations, which should be as OP"O'
a free and secure access to the
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d be guaranteed by international r. Ni,''
ant. -,
"A general association of nations
be formed under specific coven-