...Fourteen Points. Point V concerning "colonial claims" provided that "the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable...the government whose title is to be determined"." Point XII provided that "the other [non-Turkish] nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should...

...January 8th, 1918). * '' Memoirs ", Vol. 3, p. 1531. Of these points the fifth read as follows : " A free, openminded, and absolutely impartial adjustment...such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title...

...her colonies. Point Five of Wilson's Fourteen Points, which the British Empire had accepted, read: "A free, openminded, and absolutely impartial adjustment...such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the Government whose title...

...and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon . . . the principle that . . . the interests of the population concerned must have...of the government whose title is to be determined," was a watered-down version of their insistence that "no territory should be transferred without the...

...the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty, the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable...of the government whose title is to be determined. This idea, though very unpopular among certain colonial powers, inspired the inclusion of Article 22...

...domestic safety, and finally an adjustment of all colonial claims in which the interest of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable...of the government whose title is to be determined. The last point in particular shows how good it would have been, already after the First World War,...

...safety. Five. Free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based on a strict observance of the principle that in determining...of the government whose title is to be determined. Six. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia...

...open-minded, and ahsolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, hased upon a strict ohservance of the principle that in determining all such questions...population concerned must have equal weight with the equitahle claims of the government whose title is to he determined. VI. The evacuation of all Russian...

...taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment...such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title...

...eventual application in non-European settings. Wilson's fifth point embodies this aspect of his approach: "A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment...such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title...