Wilson's policy at that time was to ensure the future peace of the World, and so he enumerated the Fourteen Points, the most import ant of which was the right of each nation "to. self-determination, Before the result of the war was definitely decided, Britain and Prance were in cordial' agreement with this Policy, but after the war, when eace proposals were being discussed, Britain, France, and Italy, realizing that Wilson's policy of liberty for the us was variance with imperialistic advantage, when the Peace Conference opened, used all sorts of methods to Giseredit Wilson's proposals. On account of this, the terms fixed by the Peace Conference were exceedingly unjust; the small and weak nations were not only unable to" secure self-determination and liberty, but were oppressed to an even greater extent than before. From. this we can learn that the powerfal nations and strong peoples hi already commandeered the entire globe; no matter what nation or country, all were to be exploited by them. They intended to secure permanently their coign of vantage, end not allow the weak nations to recover their position, so they daily, advertised their Cosmopolitanism, saying that Nationalism was to narrow in its sphere; but really the Cosmopolitanism they manifested was only imperialism and aggression in another form, Fortunately Wilson's policy, having once been advocated, it' was impossible to withdraw it, because each of the small and weak states, having helped the Allied Powers to destroy the Confederate Nations, hoped that after the war they would all be independent. By and by the results of the Peace Conference caused them to lose hope entirely. Then Annam, Burma, Java, India, and Oceania, along with Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, and Egypt, and several small nations of Europe, all woke up to the fact that they hud been fooled by the Great Powers their advocacy of the self-determination of the people, so, on their own initiative, they began to determine their own'national status, The Russian Revolution The results of several years of fierce fighting in Europe showed that is fay not yet because the! war was simply a case of antagonism between the tone country and that of ancther. This w: a war between civilized and uncivilized countries, or between the principles of Might id Right, 20 the consequences were ly that the Imperialism of one ration beat down the Imperialism, another. Waat was left was still Imperialism, but from this conflict there emerged i: neonseiously a great hope for mankind: This hope was! the Russian Revolution, Revolution in Russia manifested itself very early. In 1905, before the European war, there had been revolt which had nut succeeded, Lut during the war the great par pose was achieved. The reason why Ressia again revolted at this time, because the Russian people, having passed through this experience of war, became wide awake, Russia was' one of the Allied Powers, Whilst the war was being' carried on, Russia thought over the matter, and realized that to help the Allied Powers to fight Germany, was to id a number of great tyrannies against one great tyranny, and that eventually no good would come of ft. So the soldiers and people woke up to the fact, and releasing themselves from the Allied Powers made' i|their own peace with Germany. Moreover, with reference to. the Position of the two countries, there was no cause for quarrel between them, but their imperialistic ideas made them both aggressors and the outcome was conflict. The encroachments of Germany were too formidable, and Russia had to protect herself, so there was nothing, for it but to' act in concert with Britain and France. Afterwards the Russian people were aroused and realized that impel ism was unsatisfactory, so they revolted against the imperialism of their own country, and at the same time: made peace with Germany in order to avoid oppression from outside. Not Jong after, the Allied Powers also made peace with Germany, and then all the countries together' sent troops against Rus Why did the Allied Powers attack Russia? Because the Russian people had awakened to a new consciousness of things, and realized that their daily sufferings were entirely owing to Imperialism. Now order to release themselves from their sufferings, there was nothing for it but the elimination of Impenalism, and the maintenance of the principle of self-government. All the other countries opposed this, idea, 290 they united and sent troops: to attack Russia. This principle: held by the Russian people coincide ed with the principle advocated by Wilson; that is self-determination and liberty for the small and weak nations. After this idea of Russia had been widely made known, all the small states gladly assented, and unitedly sought self-government. Europe, having passed through the [disastrous experiences of war, has not reaped much age'as far as impe cerned; but the Russian Revolution is the outcome of it, and all kind are now possessed of a gr hope. [Editorial Note: One won-cers whether all of this is deliberate misrepresentation or simply a display of ignorance.)
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