Woodrow Wilson to John Sharp Williams
Title
Woodrow Wilson to John Sharp Williams
Creator
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Identifier
WWP25262
Date
1918 October 17
Description
President Wilson agrees that he should let the Germans wait.
Source
Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence
Peace negotiations
Contributor
Morgan Willer
Relation
WWP25261
Language
English
Provenance
Document scan was taken from Library of Congress microfilm reel of the Wilson Papers. WWPL volunteers transcribed the text.
Text
My dear Senator:
I would have answered your letter of October 14th sooner, had not my Secretary been absent with the influenza..
Your idea about letting the populations of Germany Austria-Hungary, and Turkey “wobble on the gudgeon” has been in my own mind, and it has been partly for that reason that I have not replied to either the Austrian or the Turkish note yet. I shall….have to do so, but the conditions of our dealing with Austria-Hungary have been radically altered by our recognition of the Czecho-Slovaks and our official encouragement of the national aspirations of the Jugo-Slovaks so that I am pondering how I am to break the news to them that our terms for them are quite different from what they might have been in January last.
I warmly appreciate your consulting me.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
[Woodrow Wilson]
Hon. John Sharp Williams,
United States Senate.
I would have answered your letter of October 14th sooner, had not my Secretary been absent with the influenza..
Your idea about letting the populations of Germany Austria-Hungary, and Turkey “wobble on the gudgeon” has been in my own mind, and it has been partly for that reason that I have not replied to either the Austrian or the Turkish note yet. I shall….have to do so, but the conditions of our dealing with Austria-Hungary have been radically altered by our recognition of the Czecho-Slovaks and our official encouragement of the national aspirations of the Jugo-Slovaks so that I am pondering how I am to break the news to them that our terms for them are quite different from what they might have been in January last.
I warmly appreciate your consulting me.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
[Woodrow Wilson]
Hon. John Sharp Williams,
United States Senate.
Original Format
Letter
To
Williams, John Sharp, 1854-1932
Files
Collection
Citation
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, “Woodrow Wilson to John Sharp Williams,” 1918 October 17, WWP25262, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.