4. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be
reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.
5. A free, open-minded and absolutely impartial adjustment of all
Colonial claims based upon a strict observance of the principle that in
determining all such questions of sovereignty, the interests of the
populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims
of the government whose title is to be determined.
6. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all
questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest
co-operation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an
unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent
determination of her own political development and national policy, and
assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under
institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance
also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The
treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come
will 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.
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