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| | FOURTEEN POINTS SPEECH (1918) |
 | | The Fourteen Points, as the program came to be called, consisted of certain basic principles, such as freedom of the seas and open covenants, a variety of geographic arrangements carrying out the principle of self-determination, and above all, a League of Nations that would enforce the peace. |
 | | Second, the Fourteen Points constituted the only statement by any of the belligerents of their war aims. |
 | | Most important, where many countries believed that only self-interest should guide foreign policy, in the Fourteen Points Wilson argued that morality and ethics had to be the basis for the foreign policy of a democratic society. |
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