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President Wilson's Fourteen Points, developed from his idealistic Wilsonianism program of spreading democracy and fighting militarism so as to end wars.
Instead, Gompers favoured a meeting in Paris which would only consider President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points as a platform.
* 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson announces his " Fourteen Points " for the aftermath of World War I.
However, he castigated Japanese leaders who seemed enthralled by the British and the Americans and who spoke in favor of Woodrow Wilson ’ s Fourteen Points and the League of Nations, claiming these countries used idealism as " a mask for their own self-interest.
United States President Woodrow Wilson and his adviser Colonel Edward M. House enthusiastically promoted the idea of the League as a means of avoiding any repetition of the bloodshed of the First World War, and the creation of the League was a centrepiece of Wilson's Fourteen Points for Peace.
In January 1918 Wilson issued his Fourteen Points of January 1918 which, among other things, called for adjustment of colonial claims, as long as the interests of colonial powers had equal weight with the claims of subject peoples.
On January 8, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson of the United States proclaimed his famous Fourteen Points which centered around the concept of national self-determination.
In 1918, he issued his Fourteen Points, his view of a post-war world that could avoid another terrible conflict.
* January 8 – Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech.
* Fourteen Points as designed by United States President Woodrow Wilson advocates the right of all nations to self-determination.
In 1918, Clemenceau thought that France should adopt Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, mainly because of its point that called for the return of the disputed territory of Alsace-Lorraine to France.
His Fourteen Points and the concept of a League of Nations had made a big impact on the war weary French.
Although the United States promoted Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and the ideals of self-determination at the conference, Wilson was unable to advance these ideals in the face of stubborn resistance by David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and the U. S. Congress.
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, despite being rooted in moralism, were also seen as Western-centric and hypocritical.
Many in the Chinese intellectual community believed that the United States had done little to convince the imperialist powers ( especially Britain, France, and Japan ) to adhere to the Fourteen Points, and observed that the United States itself had declined to join the League of Nations ; as a result they turned away from the Western liberal democratic model.
Some historians have speculated that Chinese history might have taken a different course at this time had the United States taken a stronger position on Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and self-determination.
With Wilson's 1918 proclamation of the Fourteen Points, whose fifth point proclaimed: " 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 of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined ", some Algerian intellectuals — dubbed oulémas began to nurture the desire for independence or, at least, autonomy and self-rule.
A few weeks before the formal end of World War I, Lansing informed the crumbling Austro-Hungarian government that the Americans could no longer negotiate on the basis of Wilson's Fourteen Points.
The US Navy Radio Service radio station in New Brunswick, Canada, transmitted the Fourteen Points by wireless to Nauen in 1917.
President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech was transmitted from the site in 1918.
In 1918, U. S. President Woodrow Wilson addressed the issue as Point 8 in his Fourteen Points speech.
Some of the proposals eventually were included in Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points call for peace in January 1918.
After the United States entered the war, Lodge continued to attack Wilson as hopelessly idealistic, assailing Wilson's Fourteen Points as unrealistic and weak.
President Woodrow Wilson of the USA had suggested that the Versailles Peace Conference would be inclusive and even-handed, but his " Fourteen Points " had called for " equal weight " between parties at arbitration in article 5, and not outright declarations of independence.
The Fourteen Points was a speech given by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918.

Fourteen and 3
* February 3The Symphony of the Air, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, gives the world première of Robert Moevs's Fourteen Variations for Orchestra ( composed in 1952 ) in New York.
Fourteen of these structures are residence halls providing on-campus housing for approximately 3, 000 students.
Fourteen Korean presidential advisers, journalists, and security officials were killed ; 4 Burmese nationals, including 3 journalists, were also among the dead.
Fourteen years later, CBS decided to try the show again from April 3 to July 14, 1989 at 10: 30 AM ( 9: 30 Central ) with Los Angeles news anchor Chuck Henry hosting.
The regeneration of the Cefn flight ( Fourteen Locks ) is a separate project from the main scheme ; contractors will work down the flight, while a voluntary team led by the Canals Trust and Waterway Recovery Group will work up from lock 3 on the Allt-yr-yn locks.
Fourteen generations of Vishwa ruled for 500 years, 3 Month and 17 days as follows:
Fourteen astronauts made up Group 3.

Fourteen and so
Fourteen games have been released so far.
Twentieth Century Fox changed the title from The Man on the Ledge to Fourteen Hours at the request of Warde's mother, so that the picture would not be as closely identified with her son.
Fourteen councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in fourteen wards, while the remaining thirteen are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received.
Fourteen radioactive isotopes ( radioisotopes ) have also been found so far, with atomic masses ranging from 10 to 25, and one nuclear isomer, < sup > 11m </ sup > N.

Fourteen and all
Thus the " Fourteen Families " ( actually many dozens of families ) that have controlled El Salvador's history were all but feudal lords.
It is assumed that, except for the Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, all Degas bronzes worldwide are cast from surmoulages ( i. e., cast from bronze masters ).
Fourteen deaf and cognitively impaired adults participated in the pilot study, and all were able to learn to use manual signs ; improved behaviour was also noted.
Fourteen were published during her lifetime, in three publications dated 1910, 1915, and 1924 ; it is unclear whether she continued composing at all after her last publication.
* 1986 Ascent by Reinhold Messner, thus becoming the first person to climb all of the Fourteen Eight-Thousanders.
Fourteen prison officers were charged with assault in June 1975, but were all acquitted at a trial presided over by Swanwick J.
Fourteen episodes of the show were produced, which all aired during the show's first and only season in 1987 and were repeated in 1989.
Fourteen days after the festival, to make sure all the hungry ghosts find their way back to hell, people float water lanterns and set them outside their houses.
One of the Fourteen points was that no secret treaties should be made, and that all of these treaties should be made through the League of Nations, however the final version of the Versailles treaty did not contain this provision.
Fourteen of the shorts are available for $ 1. 99 for every two, while the other three are all in one video for the same price.
Fourteen miles of rope ( with metal swivels inserted at intervals to resist entanglements ) were therefore required in all.
Fourteen nations competed in all, with 100 swimmers entering the events.
Fourteen players participated, eight of them rated top-ten of the world, including World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, while the rest were all among the world's top 50 players.
Fourteen more states followed in the first two decades of the 20th century, and by 1963 all death-penalty jurisdictions employed discretionary sentencing.
The term F-unit refers to the model numbers given to each successive type, all of which began with F. The F originally meant Fourteen, as in 1, 400 horsepower, not F as in Freight.
Fourteen groups became full participants in the inquiry, attending all meetings and testifying before the commission.
Fourteen percent of all men reported using medication or supplements to improve sexual function.
Fourteen Scholarships are awarded each year and currently provide between $ 44, 000 and $ 50, 000 of support to cover all university and college fees ( i. e., tuition ) at the University of Cambridge, a living allowance, visa fees, round-trip airfare between the United States and the United Kingdom, a $ 500 Travel Award, and the possibility of an additional $ 2, 000 Special Research Grant.
Fourteen followers of Amalric began to preach that " all things are One, because whatever is, is God.

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