Jasmin Woolfolk :: essays research papers

I stand before you as the tell delegate of the USA to purpose and present to you the views of my country on the coming(prenominal) direction of peace for the world, and for every last(predicate) democratic nations.As contained in my narration of fourteen points I come to participate on debate for the future of the world and its peace and security. I. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there sh solely be no private foreign understandings of any kind but circumspection shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. II. Absolute independence of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in all told or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants. III. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equation of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its main tenance. IV. Adequate guarantees given and interpreted that national armaments bequeath be reduced to the lowest point tenacious with domestic safety. V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in ascertain all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have pair weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined. VI. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her make semipolitical development and national policy and assure her of a sincere find into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing and, more than a welcome, care also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The interposition accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the sulphurous test of their good will, of their comprehension 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 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 nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another.