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"_Twenty-first._ Persia to be freed from all treaties establishing spheres of influence. Rigid application of the 'Open-Door' policy in regard to commercial and industrial development. "_Twenty-second._ All Alsace-Lorraine to be restored to France without conditions. "_Twenty-third._ Belgium to be restored to full sovereignty. "_Twenty-fourth._ A consideration of the union of Luxemburg to Belgium. (This is open to question.) "_Twenty-fifth._ The Kiel Canal to be internationalized and an international zone twenty miles from the Canal on either side to be erected which should be, with the Canal, under the control and regulation of Denmark as the mandatory of the Powers. (This last is doubtful.) "_Twenty-sixth._ All land north of the Kiel Canal Zone to be ceded to Denmark. "_Twenty-seventh._ The fortifications of the Kiel Canal and of Heligoland to be dismantled. Heligoland to be ceded to Denmark. "_Twenty-eighth._ The sovereignty of the archipelago of Spitzbergen to be granted to Norway. "_Twenty-ninth._ The disposition of the colonial possessions formerly belonging to Germany to be determined by an international commission having in mind the interests of the inhabitants and the possibility of employing these colonies as a means of indemnification for wrongs done. The 'Open-Door' policy should be guaranteed. "While the foregoing definitive statement as to territory contains my views at the present time (September 21, 1918), I feel that no proposition should be considered unalterable, as further study and conditions which have not been disclosed may materially change some of them. "Three things must constantly be kept in mind, the natural stability of race, language, and nationality, the necessity of every nation having an outlet to the sea so that it may maintain its own merchant marine, and the imperative need of rendering Germany impotent as a military power." Later I realized that another factor should be given as important a place in the terms of peace as any of the three, namely, the economic interdependence of adjoining areas and the mutual industrial benefit to their inhabitants by close political affiliation. This factor in the territorial settlements made more and more impression upon me as it was disclosed by a detailed study of the numerous problems which the Peace Conference had to solve
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