LAD #31: President Wilson's 14 Points

President Wilson's 14 points outlined his beliefs of peace after the war, in this speech to Congress he proposed his ideas.
1) There should be no private meetings and all diplomacy should be peaceful and public.
2) Totally free navigation of the seas, there should be no difference in times of war and peace.
3) Trade should be equal between all nations agreeing to peace.
4) Nations should reduce their armories as low as possible, and used for domestic safety only.
5) Colonial claims should be unbiased, with the nation in mind.
6) All armies should be removed from Russia and allow it to develop in its own way.
7) Belgium should return to the independence it had before the war.
8) France will be completely free and retain control of Alsace-Lorraine.
9) Italians will continue to live in Italy and the borders will be based on nationality.
10) The people of Austria-Hungary will continue to develop in their own way.
11) Rumania, Serbia, Montenegro and other Balkan States will be free and establish their boundaries based on nationality, and they will work on their development.
12) The Turkish government will govern only Turkish people, and the other nationalities that were under Turkish rule, will become independent.
13) Poland will be independent with access to the sea.
14) The League of Nations will guarantee the freedoms and independence of all states in it.