7. Restoration of Rumanian territory with autonomy for the Dobrudja; the Berlin convention concerning equality for Jews to be put into full force.
8. Autonomy for the Italian population of Trent and Trieste, pending a plebiscite.
9. Restoration of the German colonies.
10. Restoration of Persia and Greece.
11. Neutralization of all maritime straits leading to inland seas, including the Suez and Panama Canals.
12. All belligerents to renounce indemnities; contributions exacted during the war to be refunded.
13. All belligerents to renounce commercial boycotts after the war or the institution of special customs agreements.
14. Peace conditions to be settled at a congress composed of delegates chosen by a national representative body, the condition being stipulated by the respective parliaments that the diplomats shall sign no secret treaty; all such secret treaties to be declared null and void.
15. Gradual disarmament on land and sea and the establishment of militia to replace the standing armies.
At almost precisely the same moment that this conference was in session Trotzky was publicly delivering an address to the members of the Executive Committee of the Soviet, in Petrograd, in the following terms: