enlisted in the terrible struggle to end the hideous immorality
and unmorality of militarism, to restore stolen goods and
to further the establishment of governments in accordance
with the will of those governed.

France sought Alsace-Lorraine as a measure of justice.
Italy sought the Trentino and Trieste on the same ground.
The United States and Great Britain sought the acquisition
of no new territory. Great Britain has indicated that she
does not desire the return of Helgoland, that island off the
mouth of the Elbe which Lord Salisbury sold to Germany
and which has proved so formidable a naval outpost of the
German empire in this war.

The question as to the German colonies, however, has
raised a doubt among some whether Great Britain will adhere
religiously to the attitude of seeking no additional territory.
Germany has colonies in East and West Africa of large
extent. She has a colony of large area in the neighborhood
of Australia, part of the island of New Guinea. The
Australians, the New Zealanders and the South Africans
among the English colonists object to the return of these
colonies to Germany, because Germany's ownership of them
has been a threat to Australia and New Zealand and has
required special defenses by them.

It is to be inferred from the clearly proved outrageous
treatment by Germany of her colonists that the Peace Con-
ference in Versailles will conclude that none of her colonies
should be returned to Germany. They have not been ad-
ministered for the benefit of the backward peoples in the
colonies. The treatment of these peoples is of a piece with
the atrocious conduct of the Germans in this war.

Under the principles laid down in the fourteen points,
therefore, the only question which the conferees can take up

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