At the time of the war the American President Wilson uttered a dictum that met with universal Approval. It was "Self-Determination of the Peoples," Because Germany used military power oppress the people of the Allied Commercial Nations, Wilson held that the might of Germany ought to be broken in order that the small and weak nations of the world should' have opportunities of slfgovernment, and this met with the world's. approval. So the common people of India supported Britain, although that "country had been already destroyed by her. But a great many of the small. nations, eating that Wilson had said. that the war was for the liberty of the aoall and" weak countries, very Pladly assisted Britain in the conflict. "The people of Annam, though conquered by France," and hating every day her despotism assisted her during the war because they realized the justice of Wilson's policy. They sympathized the small and weak states of Europe such as Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and Rumania, so anitad with the Allied Powers to fight against the Confederate Nations, because they had heard this dictum of Wilson's about the self-determination of the peoples." We Chinese were also encouraged by America to join in the war, and although we did not send troops, we let_them have several hundreds of thousands of labourers to dig trenches and perform after war services. The Allied Powers, Eaving invented this excellent pre: text, were able to influence all the oppressed countries, whether in Burope or Asia, to unite and help them to smash the Confederate Nations,
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