The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-10-18
WILSON'S PEACE
TERMS WHICH THE
GERMANS ACCEPT
All Invaded Territory to Be
Evacuated and Freedom of
Seas to All Nations.
Belgium to Be Restored, French Terri
tory Freed, independent Polish
State Erected and Russia Given
Chance to Become Free Nation.

Chance TO Become Free Nation
The fourteen terms of peace set |
down by President Wilson in his adj
dress of January s, and accepted by |
the Germans, and the additional -four |
points" outlined by him in his Mt |
Vernon speech of July 4, are as fol-
lows:
L. Open covenants of peace, openly
arrived at, after Which dhere shall be
no private international understand
ings of any kind but diplomacy shall
proceed always frankly and in the pub
lie view.
ii. Absolute freedom of navigation
upon the seas, outside territorial wa
tiers, alike in peace and in war, except
as the seas may be closed in whole or
in part by international action for the
enforcement of International coven-
ants.
III. The removal, so far as pos
sible, of all economic barriers and the
establishment of an equality of trade
conditions among all the nations con-
| senting to the peace and associating
themselves for its maintenance.
~. Adequate guarantees given and
taken that national ornaments will be
reduced to the lowest points consistent
with domestic safety.
V. free, open-minded and absO-
lutely impartial adjustment of all CO.
llonial claims, based upon strict OBJ
servance of the principle that in deter
mining all such questions of sover-
eighty the interests of the populations
concerned must have equal weight
with the equitable claims of the gov
eminent whose title is to be deter
mined.
vi. The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such settlement of all
questions affecting Russian territory
and settlement of all questions af-
fecting 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 assure
ciety Of free nations under institutions
of her own choosing; and, more thar
a welcome, assistance also of every
kind that she may need and may her
self 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 compre
hnn Of n ictin g or
from their own interests, and of theil
intelligent and unselfish sympathy.
VII. Belgium, the whole world will
agree, must be evacuated and restored
without any attempt to limit the SOY
ereignty 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 ma
| tons in the laws which they hav,
| themselves set and determined witt
: one another. Without this healing ac
| the whole structure and validity O
? international law is forever impaired
: VIII. All French territory should be
! freed and the invaded portions re
1 stored, and the wrong done to France
I by Prussia in 1871 in the matter O
S Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettle
I the peace of the world for nearly fifu
: years, should be righted, in order tina
Y peace may once more be made secur
e in the interest of all.
Il IN. A REIMBURSEMENT of the frontier
of Italy should be effected along clear
ly recognizable lines of nationality.
X. The peoples of Austria Hungary
whose place among the nations "
wish to see safeguarded and assured
d should be accorded the freest oppol
h tunity of autonomous development.
s Nj Rumania, Serbia and Montef
II egro should be evacuated; occupie
S territories restored; Serbia sccorde
n free and. secure access to the sea an
the relations of the several Balka
= states to one another determined b
+ friendly counsel along historically q
= tabished lines of allegiance and Ia
% tionality; and International guarantee
p | of the political and economic indepel
a dence and territorial integrity of III
IS several Balkan states should be 81
~ tered into.
10 MI. The Turkish portions of I'll
/ present Ottoman empire should be ii
10 sured secure sovereignty. but Il
other nationalities which are now III
n der Turkish rule should be assured Il
Al undoubted security of life and an al
T. solutely unmolested opportunity
in autonomous development. ahd the la
o. danelles should be permanently open'
as free passage to the ships al