LAD#25 - 14 points

President Woodrow Wilson delivered his Fourteen Points to Congress on January 8th, 1918. It adressed that representatives from the Central Empires have presented means of the possible basis of a general peace. The Russian representatvies presented a definite statement of the pricniples and a program of the concrete applicationf of thus said principles. The representaives of the Central Powers also presented a less definite outline of settlement. Which proposed no concessions. Wilson tells the Congress of the Russians' just and wise conferences they have been holding with statesmen in open doors. Yet the Central Powers, thought they have no vaguenesss or uncertainty remain in their own secret counsel. The vioce of the Russian people call for definitions of unsaid principles and purposes. The United States entered the war because of violations of right and thus wish to make the wolrd right in peace, liberty, and life. Then fourteen specific points are presented to the Congress. Adressing how the nations should meet to find general peace; navigation of the seas, the removal of tarrifs, how terrotiry should be returned, rebuilt, or redistributed; the readjustment of frontiers; the guarantuee of the freed people's freedom,; and finally that a general association of nations must be formed to guarantee politcal independence and teriitorial integrity. This was the basis for the United Nations today, then called the League of Nations which was quite useless.