be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her
needs, as distinguished from their own interests, and of their
intelligent and unselfish sympathy.

7. 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. Without this healing act the whole structure and
validity of international law is forever impaired.

8. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions
restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871, in the matter
of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for
nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more
be made secure in the interests of all.

9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along
clearly recognized lines of nationality.

10. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we
wish to see safeguarded and restored, should be accorded the freest
opportunity of autonomous development.

11. Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro should 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 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.

12. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured
a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under
Turkish rule, should be assured an undoubted security of life and an
absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the
Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships
and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.

13. An independent Polish State should be erected which should include
the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which
should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose
political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be
guaranteed by international covenants.

14. General associ