...more than debate, adding its fuel to the very fires it hopes to quench." Dean Rusk, 1961 Publicity: "Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." Woodrow Wilson, first of the "Fourteen Points," 1918 Puipose: "Pursue one great decisive aim with force...

...meaning was clear if one considers the domestic political conditions necessary for his first point: "Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." His 1917 war message to Congress asserted that "a steadfast concert of peace can never be maintained...

...is clear enough if one thinks about the domestic political conditions necessary for his first point: "Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...shall proceed always frankly and in the public view." Moreover, his 1917 war message openly asserted that "a steadfast concert of peace can never be maintained...

...the revelation of the secret treaties, which was attempted in the very first of the Fourteen Points: 'Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.'67 Thus, democratic diplomacy was appended to the other elements of democratic ideology that...

...Fourteen Points for peace. He denounced the 'secret covenants' of old diplomatic practices; he called for 'open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in public view' (Walworth 1969, p. 148). Next, Wilson reiterated his old sine qua non of peace: 'absolute...

...shall be no private intetnational undetstandings of any kind but diplomacy shall ptoceed always ftankly and in the public view. II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside teetitorial watets, alike in peace and in wat, except as the seas may be closed in whole ot in patt...

...the Fourteen Points to be used as a guide for a peace settlement. His first point stated the goal: "open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view."5 Wilson surely believed this, and he surely was believed. Yet as the twentieth century advanced,...

...by President Wilson in the first of his Fourteen Points enacted in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919: "Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after...diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view."1 There is a startling extremism in this famous formulation. Openness is celebrated as both a...

...circles since 1914. They were not original to him, but he summed up the moment as no one else had. Point I, '[O]pen covenants of peace, openly arrived at,...international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall always proceed always frankly and in the public view', remains the definitive statement on the 'New...

...commitment to a trading order is nonetheless famous, as reflected in Points 2 and 3 of the January Address: "absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war . . . ;" "the removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality...