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Show TERMS PROPOSED Blf THEJPRES1DENT PEACE PROGRAM TO WHICH GERMANY GER-MANY MUST SUBSCRIBE TO END WORLD WAR. Germany Must Evacuate Russia, Restore Re-store Belgium, Free French Provinces Prov-inces and Cuarantee That She Will Keep the Peace. Washington. President Wilson's program of world peart stated in fourteen four-teen terms in his address to congress Iiisi Jununry 8 unci which tin; German chancellor is now asked to say whether he accepts without qualification, he-fore he-fore the president, replies to the latest peace proposals, is as follows: 1. Open covenants of peace, openly, arrived at, after which there shall ho-' no private international understanding of any kind, hut diplomacy shall pro-1 ceed always frankly anil In the public view. '1. Ahsolule freedoln of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, like in pence and in war except ex-cept as the seas may be closed in whole or In part by International action ac-tion for the enforcement of Internn-llonal Internn-llonal covenants. :i. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment es-tablishment of an equality of trade conditions among nil nations consenting consent-ing to the peace and associating themselves them-selves for its maintenance. 4. Adequate guarantees given and laken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. f. A free open-minded anil absolutely abso-lutely Impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, bused upon n strict observance ob-servance of the principle that in determining de-termining all such questions of sovereignty, sov-ereignty, the interests of the populations popula-tions concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined. de-termined. Evacuation of Russia. f. The evuountion of all Russian territory and such settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will se-stire se-stire the best and freest co-operation of the other nations of the world in obtaining ob-taining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent in-dependent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of n sincere welcome wel-come into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choos-l.ig; choos-l.ig; and, more than u welcome, as distance also of every kind that she inay hoed and may herself desire. The treatment accorded llussia by her sister sis-ter nations in the mouths to come will he the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs ns distinguished from their own interests and of their Intelligent and unselfish sympathy. i 7. 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 net will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among I he nations na-tions in the laws which they themselves them-selves have set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international inter-national law is forever impaired. 8. All French territory should be freed and the invhded portions restored, re-stored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1ST I in the matter of Alsaee-liorraine, whicli lias unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should he righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all. !). A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality. U The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity oppor-tunity of aulononiius development. 11. Rumania. Serbia and Montenegro Montene-gro should be evacuated: occupied territories ter-ritories restored ; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea and the relations of the several Halkan stales to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into. V2. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman empire should be assured as-sured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now tinder tin-der Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of lite and an absolutely ab-solutely unmolested opportunity or autonomous development, and the Dardanelles Dar-danelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce com-merce of all nations tinder international interna-tional guarantees. in. An independent I'olish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably indisput-ably I'olish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sen. and whose political and economic eco-nomic independence and territorial integrity in-tegrity should be guaranteed by international inter-national covenant. I t. A general association of n-itions must he formed under specific covenants coven-ants for the purpose of affording mutual mu-tual guaranti es of political indoo'-nd fWf and Vrritorial integrity to great luid small s'ates alike. |