it can easily be found but the authors is chinese but you can read this instead and CRYING!
- A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions ofsovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
"National aspirations must be respected; people may now be dominated and governed only by their own consent.
Self determination is not a mere phrase; it is an imperative principle of action. . . . "
—
Woodrow Wilson with his famous
self-determination speech on 11 February 1918
[12] after he announced his
Fourteen Points on 8 January 1918.
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"I am not asking for money or troops," the young man said, "only that you talk on our behalf." The young man didn't have much time as the meeting was only scheduled to last ten minutes, but to this young man it was an all important meeting. He was addressing President Woodrow Wilson and the future of his country. Although he had attempted and been denied a meeting on three previous tries, the young man stuck with it and finally through the intervention of a colleague he had a meeting with the President of the United States. President Wilson was in France meeting with the leaders of Britain, Italy, and France forging what would become known as the Treaty of Versailles. The young man meeting with the president was seeking for his country what he perceived America to be.....democracy and freedom. His country was under foreign rule and domination and through President Wilson he sought a voice, a voice for the democracy and self-determination of his homeland. He wanted President Wilson to be an intercessory for him to the President of France who was even harder to reach. It was the French who were dominating and oppressing his people.
Wilson though would have none of it and even considered the very thought of asking the French to cease and desist as ludicrous.
this will be your life if not for such a guardian angel as chinese