Thomas G. Masaryk to Woodrow Wilson

Title

Thomas G. Masaryk to Woodrow Wilson

Creator

Masaryk, T. G. (Tomáš Garrigue), 1850-1937

Identifier

WWP25094

Date

1918 August 5

Description

Thomas Masaryk writes to President Wilson about his appreciation of the decision to help the Czechoslovak army.

Source

Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers

Publisher

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum

Subject

World War, 1914-1918
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence
Masaryk, Thomas Garrigue

Contributor

Morgan Willer

Relation

WWI1107A

Language

English

Provenance

Document scan was taken from Library of Congress microfilm reel of the Wilson Papers. WWPL volunteers transcribed the text.

Text

The President,
The White House,
Washington.

Mr. President:

With the deepest satisfaction I thank you for your decision to help our Czechoslovak Army in Russia.

Mr. President, you have repeatedly announced the principles in which American citizens have been bred, the principles of liberated mankind, of the actual equality of nations, and the principles according to which governments derive all their just power from the consent of the governed. The decision of the third of August to us constitutes a guarantee that these American principles will be realized. It is for these principles that our nation has been contending not only in this war, but already long ago; it is for these principles that our boys are shedding their blood on the endless plains of Russia and Siberia.

Your name, Mr. President, as you have no doubt read, is openly cheered in the streets of Prague, our nation will forever be grateful to you and to the people of the United States. And we know how to be grateful.

Believe me, Mr. President,
Yours very sincerely,

Th. G. Masaryk

Original Format

Letter

To

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/WWI1107.pdf

Collection

Citation

Masaryk, T. G. (Tomáš Garrigue), 1850-1937, “Thomas G. Masaryk to Woodrow Wilson,” 1918 August 5, WWP25094, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.