...open-minded, and ahsolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, hased upon a strict ohservance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the population concerned must have equal weight with the equitahle 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...of the government whose title is to be determined." The American secretary of state at the time, Robert Lansing, definitely sensed that it might become...

...taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment...of the government whose title is to be determined. VI. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia...

...taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. VA free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment...of the government whose title is to be determined. VI The evacuation of all Russian territory . . . VII Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated...

...taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. VA free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment...of the Government whose title is to be determined. VI. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia...

...1, 12 and 13, ibid. II 1] See Point 5: 'A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of...of the Government whose title is to be determined', ibid. [12] Consider his famous dictum, of 30 December 1918: 48 Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia...

...peace, the fifth of which called for "absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims," in which "the interests of the populations concerned must have...of the government whose title is to be determined." Thereafter, forward,looking African Americans urged that the future of Africa sbould be linked to the...

...domestic aafety V Free. open minded, and absolutely impareial adjustment of all colonial claims, bated upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such cquation* of sovereignty the interests of the population concerned must have r „ _. weight with the...

...taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment...of the government whose title is to be determined. VI. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia...

...January 1918, President Wilson argued for, "A free, open-minded and absolutely impartial adjustment of colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of...equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined."27 If Wilsonian self-determination did not necessarily mean complete independence and self-rule,...