Show BY THE PRESIDENT PEACE PROGRAM TO WHICH GERMANY MUST SUBSCRIBE TO END WORLD WAR germany must evacuate russia restore belgium free french provinces and guarantee that she will keep the peace washington president Wil wilsons sons pr program of world peace stated slated in fourteen terms in ills his address to congress last january 8 land and which the herman gernian chancellor la is now asked to say whether lie accepts without qualification before the president replies to the latest peace proposals 14 i rs as follows I 1 open covenants of peace openly a arrived at after which there shall chilli b be no private international understanding of any kind but diplomacy shall pr proa aeed always frankly and in the publio public view 2 absolute freedom of navigation upon the s seas outside territorial waters like in peace and in war exi ex capt as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for tile the enforcement of international covenants 3 the removal so tar far as pos possible gible of nil all economic barriers find the lie establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance 4 adequate guarantees given and taken that national arina armaments ments will lie reduced to tile lowest point consistent wit with h domestic safety 5 A free open minded and absolutely impartial adjustment of nil all colonial claims based upon a strict ill observance ot of the principle that in determining terin ter all such questions of sovereignty creig nty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is ij to be determined ter mined evacuation of russia C G the evacuation of all russian territory and such settlement of all questions affecting russia as will secure the best land and freest operation cooperation co of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered still and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of tree free nations under institutions of her own choos lag mid and more than a welcome assistance si also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire tile the treatment accor accorded cd by her sister nations I 1 in the months months to come will be alie acid test of their good will of their comprehension i of her needs as distinguished lied fro from in their own interests and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy 7 Bei belgium glum the whole world will agree must be evacuated and restored without any attempt 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 themselves have set and determined tor for the government of their relations with one another without tills this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law Is forever impaired 8 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 lie world for nearly fifty years should be righted in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all 9 A readjustment of the frontiers of italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality 10 the peoples of austila hun gary whose place among nations we nol wish ish to se see e safeguarded and assured should be accorded the freest opportunity of 0 autonom autonomous ius development IL 11 rumania serbia find and montenegro should be evacuated occupied territories ri restored serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea and the relations of the several balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance find and nationality and international guarantees of the political and economic independence und and territorial integrity of the several balkan states should be entered into I 1 12 the file turkish portion of jilt present ottoman empire should be assured it u secure sovereignty but I 1 alie hoe other nationalities which are now unter under turkish rule should lie assured an ail undoubted security of life and an absolutely sol opportunity of autonomous development and the dar danelle canelles da nelles should be permanently opened us as a free passage to the ships an and d commerce of 0 all nations under In terna florist guarantee guarante 13 an independent polish r state fale should be erected which should include tile territories inhabited by indisputably polish populations which should bo be assured a free and secure access to sea and who se political aind fill economic independence and territorial integrity teg rity should be guaranteed by international covenant 14 A general asso association clation of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the lie purpose of affel affording mu guarantees of 0 political In depend ence and integrity to great and small states alike |