The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-14
% Peace Essentials Laid DOUn by
Pres. Wilson In Public Speeches

tional guarantees of the political and
integrity of the several Balkan states
should be entered INTO.
economic independence and territorial
12.-The Turkish portions of the pres
ent Ottoman empire should be assured
secure sovereignty, but the other ma
tiOnalities which are now under Turkish
rule should be assured an undoubted Sc
curity of life and an absolutely unnN
Tested opportunity of autonomous de-
velopment, and the Dardanelles should
be permanently opened as free pas
sage to the ships and commerce of all
nations under international guarantees.
13.-An independent Polish state
should be erected which should include
tho territories inhabited by indisputa-
bly, Polish populations, which should be
assured free and secure access to the
sea, and whose political and economic
independence and territorial integrity
should be guaranteed by international
covenant.
IA general association of nations
must be formed under specific covenants
for the purpose of affording mutual
guarantees of political independence
and territorial integrity to great and
small states alike.
These are the four points cited by the
President in his address of Feb. IL j.,
1918:
THAT each part of the final settle
ment must be based upon the essential
justice of that particular case and upon
such adjustments as are most likely to
bring a peace that will be permanent
2.-That peoples and provinces are
not to be bartered about from sovereign
ty to sovereignty as if they were mere
chattels and pawns in asgame. even the
great game, now forever discredited, of
the balance of power; but that
Il 3.--Eyery territorial settlement in
volved in this war must be made in
the interest and for the benefit of the
populations concerned and not as part
of any mere adjustment or compromise
of claims among rival states; and,
4.-That adj well.defined national as
pirations shall be accorded the utmost
satisfaction that can be accorded them
without introducing new or perpetual
ing old clements of discord and antag-
onism that would be likely in time TO
break the peace of Europe, and con-
sequently or the worid.
In his speech of Sept 81, at the Met
ropolitan opera house, in New York, the
President set forth these principles as
representing this government in
depreciation of its own duty with regard
to peace:
1.-The impartial justice melted out
must involve no discrimination between
those to whom we wish to be just anC
those to whom we do not wish to bC
just. 1t must be a justice that plays NJ
favorites and knows no standard but
the equal rights of the several people:
concerned;
NO special or. separate interest Of
any single nation or any group of ma
tions can be made the basis of any par
of the settlement which is not con
sistent with the common interest Of
all;
3.-There can be no leagues or al
lance or special covenants and under
standings within the general and com
mon family by the League of Nations
4, and more specifcally-There cal
be mo special, selfish economic combina
tions within the league and no employ
heht VI any IoFm VI ecohoHic DoScot
or exclusion except as the power o
economic penalty by exclusion from tn
markets of the world may be vested il
the League of Nations itself as mean
of discipline and control;
5.-All international agreements an,
treaties of every kind must be mad
known in their entirety to the rest o
the world