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Show WILSON'S PEACE TERMS WHICH THE GERMANS ACCEPT I All Invaded Territory to Be Evacuated and Freedom of I Seas to All Nations. I Belgium to Be Restored, French Terri- ' tory Freed, Independent Polish j State Erected and Russia Given Cliance to Become Free Nation. j The fourteen terms of peace set down by President Wilson In his ad-dress ad-dress of January 8, ami accepted by the Germans, anil the additional "four points" outlined by him in his Mt. i eruon speecn ot July 4, are as follows fol-lows : 1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings understand-ings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public pub-lic view. Ii. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, wa-ters, alike in peace and in wur, except as the seas may be closed In whole or In part by international action for the eiiforcemenut of international covenants. coven-ants. HI. The 'removal, so far as possible, pos-sible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting con-senting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance. IV. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest points consistent with domestic safety. V. A free, open-minded and absolutely abso-lutely impartial adjustment of all colonial co-lonial claims, based upon a strict observance ob-servance of the principle that in determining deter-mining all such questions of sovereignty sover-eignty the interests of the populations concerned must have einUaC jyiaJit with the equitable clak erumeut whose title mined. "i VI. The evacnatioi territory and such a -i rTTtw n ? mnon,u.- aii.ev.iuig ivu.ssiuu leriiioi, and a settlement of nil questions af-'ecling af-'ecling Russia us will secure the licit and freest co-operation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination deter-mination of her own political development develop-ment and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society so-ciety of free nations under Institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and nny herself her-self desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations In the months to come will he the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension compre-hension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy. VII. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty sov-ereignty 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 nn-tlons nn-tlons in the laws which they have themselves set and determined with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired. VIII. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, re-stored, and the w rong done to France by Prussia in 1S71 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which lias unsettled the paace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more lie -made secure in the interest of all. " IX. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly clear-ly recognizable lines of nationality. X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured. should be accorded the freest opportunity oppor-tunity of autonomous development. XI. Rumania, Serbia and Montenegro Monten-egro shoflld be evacuated; occupied territories 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 es-tablished lines of allegiance and nationality na-tionality ; and international guarantees of the political nud economic independence indepen-dence and territorial integrity of the several. Balkan states should be entered en-tered into. XII. The Turkish portions of the present Ottoman empire should be assured as-sured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under un-der Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely ab-solutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles Dar-danelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international inter-national guarantees. XIII. An independent Polish state should be erected which should Include he territories inhabited by Indisput-yv Indisput-yv Polish populations, which should assured a free and secure access to fJc sea, and whose political and eco-onmic eco-onmic independence and territorial in tegrity should be guaranteed ny Internationa! In-ternationa! covenant. XIV. A general association of nations na-tions must lie formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence inde-pendence and territorial Integrity to great and small states alike. Mt. Vernon Point6. I. The destruction of every arbitrary arbi-trary power anywhere that can separately, sep-arately, secretly, and of its single choice disturb the peace of the world ; or, if It cannot he 'presently destroyed, at the least its reduction to virtual impotence. II. The setl lenient of every question, ques-tion, whether of territory, of sovereignty, sover-eignty, of economic arrangement, or of political relationship, upon the basis of the free acceptance of that .settlement .settle-ment by the people immediately concerned, con-cerned, and not from the basis of the national interest or advantage of any other nation or people which may desire de-sire a different settlement for the sake of its own exterior influence or mastery. mas-tery. III. The consent of all nations to he governed in their conduct toward each other by the same principles of honor and of respect for the common law of civilized society that governs the individual citizens of till modern states in their relations with one another; an-other; to the end that all promises and covenants may be sacredly observed, no private plots or conspiracies hatched, no -selfish injuries wrought with impunity and a mutual trust established es-tablished upon the handsome foundation founda-tion of a mutual respect for right. IV. The establishment of an organization or-ganization of peace which shall make it certain that the combined power of free nations will check every invasion of right and serve to make peace and justice the more secure by affording a definite tribunal or opinion to wnicn all must submit and by which every intetrnational readjustment that cannot can-not be amicably agreed upon by the peoples directly concerned shall be stationed. |