River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-01-17

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| territorial waters, alike in peace
and in war, except as the seas may
| be closed in whole or in part by
| international action for the en-
forcement of international cove
| nants.
Third-The removal, so far as
| possible, of all economic barriers
and the establishment of an equal
ity Of trade conditions among all
the national conserving to the
peace and associating themselves
for it's maintenance.
Fourth = Adequate guarantees
given and taken that national arm
aments will be reduced to the low
est point consistent with domestic
safety.
Fifth-A free, open minded and
absolutely impartial adjustment
of all colonial claims, based upon
a strict observance of the princi-
pies that in determining all such
questions of sovereignty the inter
ests of the populations concerned
must have equal weight with equit-
able claims Of the government
whose title is to be determined.
Sixth.-The evacuation of all Rus
sian territory and such settlement of
all questions affecting Russia as will
secure the best and freest cooperation
of the other natfons of the world in
obtaining for her an unhampered and
unembarrassed opportunity for the in
dependent determination of her own
| political development and national
policy and assure her Of a sincere well
come 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 treat
ment accorded Russia by her sister ma
tons in the months to come will be
the acid test of their good will, of their
comprehension of her needs as dis
tinguished from their own interests,
and Of their intelligent and unselfsh
sympathy.
Seventh-Belgium, the whole
world will agree, must be evacu-
ated and restored, without any at
tempt to limit the sovereignty
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 nations in the laws which
they have themselves set and de-
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their relations with one another.
Without this healing act the whole
structure and validity Of international
law is forever impaired.
Eighth-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 Alsace-Lorraine,
which has unsettled the peace of
the world for nearly so years,
| should be righted, in order that
peace may once more be made Sc
cure in the interest of all.
Ninth.-A readjustment of the
frontiers of Italy should be affect
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| of nationality.
| Tenth-The peoples of Austria
Hungary, whose place among the
nations we wish to see safeguard
ed and assured, should be accord
| ed the freest opportunity Of auton-
| omous development.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS, Serbia and
Montenegro should be evacuated.
Occupied territories restored; Ser
| bia accorded free and secure ac-
cess to the sea; and the relations
| of the several Balkan states to one
another determined by friendly
| counsel along historically estab-
| lished lines Of allegiance and ma
tionality; and international guar
ranties of the political and eco
nomic independence and territor-
ial integrity Of the several Balkan
| states should be entered into.
Twelfth-The Turkish portions
of the present Ottoman empire
should be assured secure sover-
eighty, but the other nationalities
which are now under Turkish rule
should be assured an undoubted
security of life and an absolutely
unmolested opportunity of auton-
omous development, and the OAR
danelles should be permanently
opened as a free passage to the
ships and commerce of all nations
under international guarantees.
Thirteenth-An Independent Pol
ish state should be erected which
should include the territories in
habited by indisputable Polish
populations, which should be as
sured a free and secure access to
the sea, and whose political and
economic independence and terri
torial integrity should be guaran-
teed by international covenant.
Fourteenth-A general associa-
ton of nations must be formed
under specific covenants for the
nurnOSe of affOrding mutual guar