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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.

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The Fourteen Points in the speech were based on the research of the Inquiry, a team of about 150 advisors led by foreign-policy advisor Edward M. House, into the topics likely to arise in the anticipated peace conference.
During World War I, Lippmann became an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson and assisted in the drafting of Wilson's Fourteen Points speech.
On 24 January 1918, he accepted Wilson's Fourteen Points in another speech.
* January 8, 1918: Woodrow Wilson delivered his Fourteen Points speech.
Wilson's idealistic thought was embodied in his Fourteen points speech, and in the creation of the League of Nations.

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Fourteen years later, Libanius said that Julian was killed by a Saracen ( Lakhmid ) and this may have been confirmed by Julian's doctor Oribasius who, having examined the wound, said that it was from a spear used by a group of Lakhmid auxiliaries in Persian service.
Along with Simon Peter and James the Just he was one of the most prominent early Christian leaders .< ref >" The Canon Debate ," McDonald & Sanders editors, 2002, chapter 32, page 577, by James D. G. Dunn: " James, the brother of Jesus, and Paul, the two other most prominent leading figures Peter < nowiki ></ nowiki > in first-century Christianity "</ ref > Fourteen epistles in the New Testament are traditionally attributed to Paul, although his authorship of seven of the fourteen is questioned by modern scholars.
Fourteen cities were part of the bidding process, which was scheduled to award four Super Bowls ( XXI, XXII, XXIII, and XXIV ).
Fourteen cities were part of the bidding process, which was scheduled to award four Super Bowls ( XXI, XXII, XXIII, and XXIV ).
However, her performance in Fourteen Hours was not noticed by critics, and did not lead to her receiving other film acting roles.
Fourteen years later, Sitting Bull was killed at Standing Rock reservation on December 15, 1890.
The release of Pornography was followed by the Fourteen Explicit Moments tour, where the band finally dropped the anti-image angle and first adopted their signature look of big, towering hair and smeared lipstick on their faces.
His La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, or Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, which he displayed at the sixth Impressionist exhibition in 1881, was probably his most controversial piece ; some critics decried what they thought its " appalling ugliness " while others saw in it a " blossoming ".
Fourteen years later, it was screened " out of competition " at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
In 1950 the McDonald Bridge was completed across Fourteen Mile Creek.
Fourteen feet was drilled until a gusher of petroleum was struck.
Milling was important to the town, as the first mill was built in the area, on Fourteen Mile Creek, in 1804.
Fourteen years after the movie was released, " Groundhog Day " was noted as American military slang for any day of a tour of duty in Iraq.
He was meticulous in adhering to the implementation of the Fourteen Point Plan on which the National Coalition was elected.
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 years would pass, however, before the Amendment was finally passed by Congress in 1909.
Fourteen year old actress Jennifer Connelly was ultimately chosen to play Sarah after her audition on January 29, 1985, " won Jim over " and led him to cast her within a week.

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