...more than debate, adding its fuel to the very fires it hopes to quench." Dean Rusk, 1961 Publicity: "Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." Woodrow Wilson, first of the "Fourteen Points," 1918 Puipose: "Pursue one great decisive aim with force...

...is clear enough if one thinks about the domestic political conditions necessary for his first point: "Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." Moreover, his 1917 war message openly asserted that "a steadfast concert of peace can never be maintained...

...the revelation of the secret treaties, which was attempted in the very first of the Fourteen Points: 'Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.'67 Thus, democratic diplomacy was appended to the other elements of democratic ideology that...

...Fourteen Points for peace. He denounced the 'secret covenants' of old diplomatic practices; he called for 'open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in public view' (Walworth 1969, p. 148). Next, Wilson reiterated his old sine qua non of peace: 'absolute...

...by President Wilson in the first of his Fourteen Points enacted in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919: "Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view."1 There is a startling extremism in this famous formulation. Openness is celebrated as both a...

...the Fourteen Points to be used as a guide for a peace settlement. His first point stated the goal: "open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view."5 Wilson surely believed this, and he surely was believed. Yet as the twentieth century advanced,...

...since 1914. They were not original to him, but he summed up the moment as no one else had. Point I, '[O]pen covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall always proceed always frankly and in the public view', remains the definitive statement on the 'New...

...peace must be arrived at, after which there will surely be no private international action or rulings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. Two. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in...

...Great Power, but one that had been fatally weakened. Document 6.1 President Wilson's Fourteen Points I Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. II Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in...

...Kingdom 1973 (UKTS (1973) 122), and Fisheries Jurisdiction, 1C] Reports (1974), p. 3 at p. 18. MOUs1 Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. Since President Woodrow Wilson issued this understandable, but slightly unworldly, appeal in 1919,2...