Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-13
PRESIDENT WILSON'S
PROGRAM FOR PEACE,
Evacuation of All Allied Territory and Creation of indie
pendent Poland Among Famous Fourteen
Ponts'-Treaties to Be Open.

WASHINGTON. October l".-Here ar,
the conditions OF peace laid down by
President Wilson In his addresses 10
Congress and in public speeches TO
which he has referred i'll his note ask
ink IL the German governments accepts
them:
President Wilson, in his address 10
Congress on January s. 1918, said:
The program OF the worlds peace.
therefore Is our program. and that
program. ihe only possible program,
as we sec IL. Is this:
/. open covenants OF peace. openly
arrived at. after which there shall ne
no private international understand
nEs OF any Kind, but diplomacy shall
proceed always frankly and in the pub
lie view.
upon the sea outside territorial waters.
alike in peace and i'm war. except as
the seas may be closed in whole or
in part H. international action for the
uantc.
S,The removal so far as possible. Of
al economic barriers and the estab-
liShment of an equality OF trade con-
ditions among all the nations consent
ing 10 the peace and aSsociating them
selves for it's maintenance.
4. Adequate guarantees given and
taken that national ornaments will Do
reduced TO the lowest point consistent
with domestic safety.
.. free, open minded and absolutely
'uipt. lidI OF All colonial
claims. based upon strict observance
OF the principle that in. determining all
Such questions OF sovereignty the in
terests OF populations concerned must
have equal weight with the equitable
claims OF the government whose title
is 10 be determined.
&. The evacuation Of all Russian ter
Ttory and such settlement CT all
questions affecting Russia as will Sc
cure tho best and freest corporation
Of the other nations OF the world in
oSta!hins for her an unhampered and
unembSrrassed opportunity for the in
dependent determination of her own
political development and national pol.
ley
81. Belgium. the whole world agree,
must be evacuated and restored with
out any attempt to limit the sovereign
" which she enjoys In common with
all other free nations.
S. All French territory should be
freed and the invaded portions restored
and the wrong done 10 France by Prus-
STA in 1871 in the matter OF Aisace-Lor-
raino. which has unsettled the peace OF
the world for nearly nifty years. should
be righted. An order tha%the peace may
once more BIO made sschre in the in
torest OF all.
Q. A REIMBURSEMENT Of the frontiers Of
Italy should be effected along clearly
recognizable lines OF nationality.
10. The peoples OF Austria-Hungary.
whose place among the nations we
should be accorded the freest oppor-
tunity OF autonomous development
II. Houmania. Serbia and Montenegro
should he evacuated; occupied terri
tories restored: Serbia accorded free
and secure access 10 the sea. and the
relations of tho several Balkan states
10 ono another determined by friendly
counsel along historically established
linen OF allegiance and nationality. and
International guarantees of the politi-
cal and economic independence and
territorial integrity of the several
Balkan states should be entered into.
-. The Turkish portion OF tho pres
eut ottoman empire should be assured
n secure sovereignty. but the other
nationalities which are now under
Turkish rule should be assured an
undoubted security Of life and an alb
solutcly unmolested opportunity OF au-
tonomcus DEVELOPMENT and the Oar
danelles should he permanently opened
as FREQ passage to the ships and
commerce OF all nations under inter-
national guarantees,
IL. An independent Polish state
should be erected, which should include
the territories inhabited by indisput
ably Polish populations. which should