27 JANUARY 1917, Page 3

Now comes the President's great adventure in the realm of

the specific :—

"Statesmen everywhere are agreed that there should be a united independent, and autonomous Poland, and that henceforth inviolable security of life, of worship, and of industrial and social development should be guaranteed to all peoples who have lived hitherto under the power of Governments devoted to a faith and purpose hostile to their own."

Here is something that we should all like to see, and happily there is a general agreement amongst the Entente Powers in favour of an autonomous Poland.