The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09

among all the nations consentinE
 10 tie peace and associating
 themselves for its maintenance.
 "4. Adequate guarantees given
 and taken that national nrma-
 ments will be reduced to the low
 est point consistent with domestic
 safety.
 a. A free. open-minded and ab-
 solutely impartial adjustment of
 all colonial claims based upon
 strict observance of the principle
 that in determining all such aues-
 ions of sovereignty, the interests
 or the populations concerned must
 have equal weight with the eauit-
 able claims of the government
 whose title is to be determined.
 "6. The evacuation of all Russ
 sian territory and such settle
 ment of all questions affecting
 Russia as will secure the best and
 freest cooperation of the other
 nations of the world In obtaining for her an unhampered and un-
 embarrassed opportunity for inc independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of sincere welcome into the so- ciety of free nations under fnsti- tutions of her own choosing, and more than welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need, and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehepsiop of her needs ms distinguished from their own interests and of their intelligent and unseIfish sym pathy.
 "7. Belgium, the whole world will agree. must be eyacuated and restored without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single net VIII serve as this will serve to re- store confidence among the na- tions In the laws in which they have themselves set and deter- mined for the government of their relations with one another. With out this healing net, the whole structure and validity of internn- tional law is forever impaired.
 "S. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of AIsace-LOrraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly 30 years should be righted, in order that peace may once more he made secure in the interest of aIl.
 "9. A readjustment of the from tiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.
 "1O. The peoples of Austria Hun- gary. whose place among the na- tions we wish to see safeSuarded and assured. should be accorded the freest opportunity of auton- OmOus development.
 "11. RumaRia, Servia and Mon fenegrO should be evacuated; Oc- cupied territories restored; Seryia accorded free md secure access to The seas, and relations of the BaI- Kan states to one another deter mined severally by friendly coun- sel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationaI- fty and international guarantees of the political and economic in- dependence and territorial fnteg- rity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.
 i@. Ine Turkish portions of the present Ottoman empire should be assured secure sovereignty, but the other natiOnalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an und0ubted security of life and an absolutely unmoIested opportunity of autonomous devel- opment md the Dardanelles should be permanently opened ms n free passage to the ships and commerce or all nations under international 
 "Is. An independent Polish state should De erected which should include the territories inhabited by ndfsputable Polish populations, which should he assured n free and 'afe access to the seas and whose political and economic independ- ence and territorial integrity mould be guaranteed by intcrna- IfOnaI covenant.
 "I4. A general association of na- ions must be formed under spe- 'ific covenants for the purpose of lnordfng mutual guarantees of po- iticai independence and territor- al Integrity to great and small tates alike. T