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American
President Woodrow Wilson unveiled his 14-point peace plan in a
speech before both houses of Congress. The central provisions of the
scheme were a German retreat from all territories occupied during
the world war and from France in 1871; self-determination of various
peoples in the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, and the
establishment of a Polish state. The last clause in the plan
prescribed the formation of a general organization of nations that
would assure peaceably the independence and sovereignty of states
large and small.
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