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is-as to some of them-also explicitly guaranteed in terms establishing the same on the basis of a public law of nations which no single Power-especially Japan- could violate without subjecting its action to eventual revision by the Powers assembled in an international congress like the present Peace Conference.

V. The Peace Conference meets in order to secure a settlement of the affairs of the member-nations according to the principles expressed in President Wilson's Fourteen Points. The principles underlying this statement of views is defined by the President in his Message to Congress on January 8, 1918, as the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak."

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As one of the Allied and Associated States in the war, Japan has expressly accepted the Fourteen Points with their underlying principle of justice. Inasmuch as this principle of justice is clearly violated by the Mikado's continued exercise of "all rights of sovereignty over the whole of Korea without the consent and against the wishes of the Korean People and Nation, it becomes the right and the dury of the Peace Conference to declare the nullification or otherwise decree the abrogation of the aforesaid Treaty of Annexation.

VI. In virtue of rights founded in International Law and of the New Justice which is to redress the wrongs of nations, the Korean People have a just claim for the Reconstitution of Korea as an Independent State unless, indeed, they are to be excluded from the scope of the principles which have already found expression in the reconstitution of Poland after almost one and a half centuries of partitions and annexations and in the dis-annexation of Alsace-Lorraine after nearly half a century of Prussian rule.

It is less than ten years since Japan effected the annexation of Korea, And the fact that the outbreak of the war did not find Japan an ally of the Central Powers a political combination that had always been envisaged by the German- trained advisers of the Mikado-is no reason why the Korean People should be suffered by the Peace Conference to continue to live under a system of military government which is a denial of every principle for which men have lately died on the soil of France.

THIS PETITION is presented in the name and on behalf of the Provisional Republican Government of Korea and of the Eighteen Million Seven Hundred Thousand Koreans living in Korea proper, in China, Siberia, Hawaii, the United States and elsewhere as well as of the Five Thousand and More Koreans who fought for the Allied cause on the Eastern Front before the Treaty of Brest-Litosvk in the aggregate forming and constituting the Korean People and Nation by the undersigned John Kiusic Soho Kimm, the duly accredited Member of the Korean Delegation appointed by the New Korean Young Men's Society, etc., etc,

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