PRESIDENT WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 October 1918, Page 2

PRESIDENT WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS.

The fourteen points of lined by President Wilson wf Ms speeches were:— 1. Peace compacts to be openly arrived at; diplomacy shall proceed praw licly. '*' 2. Freedom of navigation, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and war, except when necessary. 3. The removal, as far as possible, of all economic barriers. 4. Guarantees to be given that ar- ' maments 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. 6. The evacuation of all Russian i 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. I 9. A readjustment of frontiers I of Italy along lines of nationality. 10. Opportunity for autonomous development for the people of Austria- , Hungary. 11. Restoration of Rumania, Serbia and Montenegro; and the relations of the Balkan States to be determined by friendly council. 12. The Dardanelles should be permanently opened under international guarantees; nationalties under Turk-, ish rule should be given opportunity ' for autonomous development. 13 An independent Polish • State should be created. 14,. An association of nations must be formed to afford guarantees of poindependence and territorial in- \ tegrity to great and small States (alike. ,