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Show wilson's ram TEISJF PEACE German Chancellor Asked Whether Conditions Can ... Be Accepted. . Evacuation of Occupied ' NTerritory One of the ;j ''i Leading Features, ij : WASHINGTON', Oct. S. President ! Wilson's program of world peace stated in fourteen terms in his address to con-? con-? cross last January S and which the Gcr-;j Gcr-;j man chancellor now is asked to pay whether he accepts without qualification, ? Lforo. the president replies to the latest 11 peace proposals, is as follows: i Open covenants of peace, openly aril ar-il rived at. after which there shall he no private international understanding of :; ;mv kind, but diplomacy Fhall proceed i'jaiwavs frankly and in the public view. yt 2 Absolute freedom of navigation upon ;tho seas, outside territorial w. iters, alike Tl in peace and in war. except as the seas V ma v be closed in whole or in part by :T. imerfUtional action for the enforcement '.J of international covenants. ."The- removal, so far as possible, of ;:all economic barriers and the establishing establish-ing nt of an equality of trade conditions '.Inmonp all nations ..consenting- to the i peace and associating themselves for its t't maintenance. ; I Adequate guarantees given and tn-;: tn-;: ken that national armaments will be re-irduced re-irduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. $1 , a free, open-minded and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial ;i' lairns. based upon a strict observance of J. th principle that in determining all such : questions of sovereignty the interests of k; the populat ions concerned must have i equal weight with the equitable claims '.'of the government whose title is to be -'determined. T 6 The evacuation of all Russian territory terri-tory and such a settlement of all ques- lions affecting Russia as will secure the i;.jact nnd freest co-operation of the other V nitons of the world in obtaining for her unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity op-portunity for the independent dtternnna-j dtternnna-j fion of her own political development and ? pitfionaJ policy and assure her of a sin- cCre welcome into the society of tree na- - lions under institutions of her own choos-v choos-v ing; and, more than a welcome, assist - ance also of ever)" kind that she may ' reed and may herself desire. The treat-me-nt- accorded Russia by her siner na- lions in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their com-'T com-'T prehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests and of their intelligent in-telligent and unselfish sympathy. . Belgium, the whole world will aeree, -' must be evacuated and restored without i. aev attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all ' other free nations. No other single act ' wilt serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations. in the laws which they themselves have et and de- termined for the government of their relations re-lations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and va--'rftfity of international law is forever impaired. im-paired. S All French . territory should.be freed - 'and the. invaded portions restored, and I'-tW wrong done to France by Prussia in ;171. in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, '-ahich has unsettled the peace of the 'orid for nearly fifty years, should be ' rfgh'ted. in order that peace may once ""more be made secure In the interest of Vail. x 9 A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected a'ong clearly reocgriza ble lines of nationality, -..i "in The peoples of Austria-Hungary, '---whese place- among na tions we wish to safeguarded and assured, should be ac-orced the fre?st opportunity of au--tonomous development. "H Rumania. Sergia and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded fre and ne--ere access to the sa and the relations of lhe several Balkan states to one another an-other determined by friendlv counsel , alone historically established lines of al-,-igiance and nationality; and internn-4. internn-4. Ltonal guarantees of the' political and economic independence and territorial in-w-erity of the several Balkan ttates sliuld be pntered into. . 12 The Turkish portion of the present -Oj-iornan e moire should be asm red a secure se-cure sovereignty, but the other naMon-ul'tjpfl naMon-ul'tjpfl whirh arp now undr Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted fipcuritv of lifp and an ahsoiute unmolested opportunity op-portunity nf autonomous development and the Dardanelles should be permanently permanent-ly opened as a free passage to tht ships of all nations under international guarantee. guar-antee. IS An independent Polish state should he erected which should include th territories ter-ritories inhabited by indisputably Polish oopula tions. which should be assured a fre and secure access to the sea. and wnose political and economic independence indepen-dence and territorial integrity shoufd be guaranteed by International covenant. M A genfr.:l association of nations mu?t be, forced undr-r specific covmrwits for the purpose, of sfforninsr mutual guar-anteeB guar-anteeB of politVa independtnce and r.r-'".t'trifll r.r-'".t'trifll integrity to great and small states alike. |