Show 1 The Fourteen Points I I IVERY often we have heard it stated that President Wilson Vilson lost lostY VERY Y the fourteen points while white crossing the Atlantic This jocular st statement has been made to signify that none of the fourteen points as as enunciated by the president as conditions of peace had b been en ad adopted at the peace conference So often has the statement been en repeated that many have grown to accept it as truth The ti trouble uble is that few people are familiar with th the fourteen points and nd still fewer have a definite knowledge regarding the peace treaty Consequently they have taken the point fourteen story just justas justas as as the whale took Jonah As a matter of fact the peace conference accepted ten of the fourteen points and there was somewhat of a compromise on the theother other ther four Lets Let's recall the fourteen points and see what happened happened hap hap- to them No 1 L Open covenants openly open y arrived at after which there theres s shall be no private international understandings The first part y as as s defeated but under the league of nations plan future international international international understandings will be public T No 2 Freedom of seas Perhaps n no one knows just what this means means No 3 Removal of economic barriers and c establishing of equal trade conditions among all nations consenting to peace and associating themselves for its maintenance Agree to r No 4 Reduction of armaments Provided for in part under uni under un un- un- un der i r league of nations plan 5 Y No 5 Impartial adjustment of colonial claims Agree Agre tot to t No 6 Evacuation of Russian territory Partially fulfilled l 7 r- r No o. o 7 Evacuation and restoration restoration of Belgium Agreed to o. o France Fulfilled d. d No 8 Return of Lorraine Alsace-Lorraine to 1 I No 9 Readjustment of frontiers of It Italy ly Agreed to but Somewhat disturbed by coup No I 10 O. O R Readjustment adjustment of boundaries of Austria I Accomplished A No 11 Rumania and Montenegro to be evacuated and occupied territories restored Accomplished y I It No 12 Readjustment of Tin Turkeys Turkey's keys key's boundaries with inde- inde jf ip for people held in bondage by Turks Accomplished t f ci 13 1 J Independent Polish stat state Accomplished I 1 No 14 Ge eral association of nations Provided for under t league ague ague of nations nation plan f In other words President Wilson got about So 80 per cent of what he went event after which is a splendid average considering the inay contradictory contradictory interests involved |