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The Peace Negotiations

CHAPTER XVI
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Constantinople to be erected into an international protectorate surrounded by a land zone to allow for expansion of population.

The form of government to be determined upon by an international commission or by one Government acting as the mandatory of the Powers.

The commission or mandatory to have the regulation and control of the navigation of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus as international waterways.
"_Seventeenth._ Armenia and Syria to be erected into protectorates of such Government or Governments as seems expedient from a domestic as well as an international point of view; the guaranty being that both countries will be given self-government as soon as possible and that an 'Open-Door' policy as to commerce and industrial development will be rigidly observed.
"_Eighteenth._ Palestine to be an autonomous state under a general international protectorate or under the protectorate of a Power designated to act as the mandatory of the Powers.
"_Nineteenth._ Arabia to receive careful consideration as to the full or partial sovereignty of the state or states established.
"_Twentieth_.

Great Britain to have the sovereignty of Egypt, or a full protectorate over it.
"_Twenty-first._ Persia to be freed from all treaties establishing spheres of influence.

Rigid application of the 'Open-Door' policy in regard to commercial and industrial development.
"_Twenty-second._ All Alsace-Lorraine to be restored to France without conditions.
"_Twenty-third._ Belgium to be restored to full sovereignty.
"_Twenty-fourth._ A consideration of the union of Luxemburg to Belgium.


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