Poland Indemnities Other Points The principle of "allowing each people to settle its own destiny" is to be applied. No indemnities "by way of punishment." See also under Belgium, above. Apart from Belgium, the restoration of devastated area should be undertaken at the expense of an international fund. A League of Nations, an International High Court, and an "International Legislature," recommended; economic war-after-war condemned; the " open door" and a Free Trade tariff demanded. All the present colonies of the European Powers in Tropical Africa should be transferred to the League of Nations, and administered by a Commission under that authority as a single independent African State, to be permanently neutralized. GERMAN MAJORITY SOCIALISTS Belgium Serbia and Monte negro Rumania, France and Russia (Invaded Territories) German Colonies Austria-Hungary Turkey Alsace-Lorraine Poland Restoration. Austrian Socialists' views accepted (see last column). Not mentioned. Not to be restored to France, but to have "full equality as an independent member of the German State." Cultural autonomy for the French inhabitants. Russian Poland to be independent, and also Finland. The Prussian Poles to have cultural autonomy. Indemnities Other Points Belgium No indemnities and no compensation for damage, except international help if an invaded State lacks resources of its own. An obligatory international arbitration court; restriction of armaments; right of capture at sea and use of armed merchantmen to be abolished; commercial "war-after-war" to be forbidden; secret diplomacy to be abandoned; protective duties to be abolished; the open door" to be applied in the colonies. The liberation of Ireland, Egypt, Tripoli, Morocco, India, Thibet, Korea to be demanded by the Socialists of the nations which rule these countries. GERMAN MINORITY SOCIALISTS Serbia and Montenegro Rumania, France Full independence to be restored, with compensation for damage done, “especially for the economic values that have been taken away." Serbia to be reëstablished as a ing, independent State." "self-govern All Serbs to be united in a single national The German Minority Socialists do not make "Regulation of frontiers must be conditional upon the assent of the populations concerned, and not an act of force." "We reject a policy of colonial conquest. The possession of any colony without its own self-administration is nothing else than the possession of an unfree people, and, just as slavery, is incompatible with our principles." The bearing of all this on the future of Turkey is not clear. Alsace-Lorraine Poland Indemnities Other Points Belgium Serbia and Montenegro Rumania, France Austria-Hungary The people of Alsace-Lorraine should have a "direct and free vote as to its future. The "national unity" of the Poles approved. "To admit the right of Russian Poland to national independence, but to deny that same right to Prussian and Austrian Poland is contradictory." No indemnities, which " "simply mean the plundering of the vanquished by the victor." See also Belgium, above. General disarmament; compulsory international arbitration; national minorities to have "the right to develop their national life"; democratic control of foreign policy and abolition of secret treaties; any economic barriers" and "any economic struggle" between States condemned. AUSTRIAN SOCIALISTS Stockholm, May, 1917 Annexations condemned. Independence of Serbia to be restored; access to the sea perhaps to be secured by reunion with Montenegro. The other Balkan States to come to an understanding among themselves on the principle of "The Balkans for the Balkan peoples." The first article of this program demands a "peace without annexations." The subject peoples of Austria-Hungary to remain an "integral part" of the Empire, but to have national autonomy. Turkey Alsace-Lorraine Poland Indemnities Other Points Not mentioned. Uncertain whether na tional autonomy is intended to apply to any part of Turkey. In general, the program says that "the disintegration of existing great States would only serve the vicious Imperialistic aims of other great States." Not mentioned. Russian Poland (and Finland) to have independence. The Austrian and German Poles to have autonomy within the boundaries of Austria and Germany. No indemnities. Diminution of the Protectionist system demanded and the " open door" in colonies; economic "war-after-war " condemned; right of capture at sea to be abolished; disarmament, with "purely defensive national militias"; nationalization of war industries. REFERENCE LIST OF OTHER SOURCES REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT (The following documents are not included in this book because they are easily accessible. 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