PEACE TERMS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14888, 10 October 1918, Page 3

PEACE TERMS.

PRESIDENT WILSOTn'S "FOURTEEN POINTS."

The famous "fourteen points" laid down by President Wilson are, briefly:

("H Peace compacts to be openly arrived at; diplomacy shall proceed'pubiielv.

; (2) Freedom of navigation, oxitside territorial waters, alike iv peace or war, except when necessary to close seas for the enforcement of international covenants.

(3) The removal, as far as possible of all economic barriers.

(4) Guarantees to be given that armaments will be reduced to the lowest point.

(5) An impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, bearing in mind that the interests of the populations concerned must have . equal weight with the demands of the claimant Government. .

f'6) The, evacuation of all Russian territory.

\7) Belgium must be evacuated and restored.

•;8) All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine righted.- ' ' •,.'■■.

; (9) A.'readjustment of frontiers of Italy along lines of nationality.: - , (10) Opportunity for autonomous development for the people of AustriaHungary. ■ '■;■

(11) Restoration of Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro ; and tne relations _oi' the Balkan States to be determined'by i'riendly: council.

(12) The Dardanelles should' he permanently opened, under international guarantees;' nationalities under Turkish rule should be given opportunity for autonomous development. (13) An independent Polish State should be created.

(14) An association of nations mustbe formed to. afford guarantees of political independence'and ■territorial integrity to great and small States alike.