“Sixteenth.  Constantinople to be erected into an international protectorate surrounded by a land zone to allow for expansion of population.  The form of government to be determined upon by an international commission or by one Government acting as the mandatory of the Powers.  The commission or mandatory to have the regulation and control of the navigation of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus as international waterways.

“Seventeenth. Armenia and Syria to be erected into protectorates of such Government or Governments as seems expedient from a domestic as well as an international point of view; the guaranty being that both countries will be given self-government as soon as possible and that an ‘Open-Door’ policy as to commerce and industrial development will be rigidly observed.

   “Eighteenth. Palestine to be an autonomous state under a general
   international protectorate or under the protectorate of a Power
   designated to act as the mandatory of the Powers.

   “Nineteenth. Arabia to receive careful consideration as to the full
   or partial sovereignty of the state or states established.

   “Twentieth.  Great Britain to have the sovereignty of Egypt, or a
   full protectorate over it.

   “Twenty-first. Persia to be freed from all treaties establishing
   spheres of influence.  Rigid application of the ‘Open-Door’ policy in
   regard to commercial and industrial development.

   “Twenty-second. All Alsace-Lorraine to be restored to France
   without conditions.

   “Twenty-third. Belgium to be restored to full sovereignty.

   “Twenty-fourth. A consideration of the union of Luxemburg to
   Belgium. (This is open to question.)

“Twenty-fifth. The Kiel Canal to be internationalized and an international zone twenty miles from the Canal on either side to be erected which should be, with the Canal, under the control and regulation of Denmark as the mandatory of the Powers. (This last is doubtful.)

   “Twenty-sixth. All land north of the Kiel Canal Zone to be ceded to
   Denmark.

   “Twenty-seventh. The fortifications of the Kiel Canal and of
   Heligoland to be dismantled.  Heligoland to be ceded to Denmark.

   “Twenty-eighth. The sovereignty of the archipelago of Spitzbergen
   to be granted to Norway.

“Twenty-ninth. The disposition of the colonial possessions formerly belonging to Germany to be determined by an international commission having in mind the interests of the inhabitants and the possibility of employing these colonies as a means of indemnification for wrongs done.  The ‘Open-Door’ policy should be guaranteed.

“While the foregoing definitive statement as to territory contains my views at