ent and unselfish sympathy._

No restatement of the President's words on this subject is necessary.
The Russian revolution is one of the most important results of the Great
War. How can the future welfare of Russia be best secured?

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._

The evacuation of Belgium will follow the military victories of the
United States and her associates. The restoration of Belgium will be
difficult to effect. It implies relief to her suffering and starving
people, the return of the many exiles to Belgium, the erection of new
homes for them, the reorganization of industry and transportation, and
the repair and rebuilding of her historic edifices. Where will the funds
come from for such work? Germany, the aggressor, surely should bear a
part or all of the cost.

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 interest of all._

Here the President urges the same treatment for the occupied lands of
northern France as for those of Belgium. The devastated lands must be
reclaimed, the inhabitants cared for, and adequate means provided by
which they can earn a livelihood. Further, he advises the return of
Alsace-Lorraine to France. Such action not only will right the wrong
done to France in 1871, but also it will take from Germany much of the
iron-producing areas which have made it possible for her to prepare and
carry on this war, and which might permit her to get ready for a yet
more dreadful war in the future.

9. _A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along
clearly recognizable lines of nationality._

We have seen how a considerable area inhabited by Italians was not freed
from Austrian rule when the Italian kingdom was founded. This territory,
called Italia Irredenta (unredeemed Italy), and this po