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" Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored without any attempt to limit , the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the... "
The Shaping of Western Society: A Book of Readings for Inductive Teaching
by Carnegie Institute of Technology. Social Studies Curriculum Development Center - 1966 - 338 pages
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The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 48

1921 - 402 pages
...Russia, Belgium, France, and the Balkan States. The sovereignty of Belgium should be unlimited in future; the " wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine . . . should be righted"; Italian frontiers should be readjusted "along clearly recognizable lines...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 96

1924 - 978 pages
...complications,' was to be tragically fulfilled, and fully justified President Wilson's words that ' the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine . . . unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years.' z The valley of the Sarre, however,...
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British and Foreign State Papers

Great Britain. Foreign Office, Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office - 1921 - 1178 pages
...will serve as this will serve to restore confidence atnong the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of...whole structure and validity of international law is for ever impaired. VIII. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and...
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The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914-1938

Philippe Bernard, Henri Dubief - 1988 - 382 pages
...statements on the matter, and despite the eighth of Wilson's Fourteen Points, with all their imprecision ('the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine ... should be righted'), the German government was convinced that the allies would not give very energetic...
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Across the Face of France: Liberation and Recovery 1944-63

James Alvin Huston - 1963 - 284 pages
...should be l Quoted in Albert Guerard, The France of Tomorrow (Cambridge, Mass., 1942), 61. evacuated and restored, and "the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine" should be righted. Interestingly enough, a survey of French opinion in 1954 showed that among the areas...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to 20th-century History

Alan Axelrod - 1999 - 518 pages
...act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of...done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of [seizing the] Alsace-Lorraine [region], which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty...
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The World's Great Speeches

Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 pages
...act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of...forever impaired. VIII. All French territory should he freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France hy Prussia in i87t in the...
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In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century

Robert G. Torricelli, Andrew Caroll - 1999 - 488 pages
...act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of...validity of international law is forever impaired. Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted,...
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Armistice 1918

Bullitt Lowry - 2000 - 270 pages
...Wilson left restoration undefined. His eighth point demanded the evacuation of France and righting "the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine." Righting it did not necessarily mean France's annexing the Lost Provinces, but by October, Wilson saw...
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The Major International Treaties of the Twentieth Century: A ..., Volume 1

John Ashley Soames Grenville - 2001 - 482 pages
...act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of...validity of international law is forever impaired. \ III. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to...
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