Woodrow Wilson to Austrian Government
Title
Woodrow Wilson to Austrian Government
Creator
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Identifier
WWP25337
Date
[1918 October 29]
Description
Austria agrees to fourteen points, additional points, and the formation of Yugoslavia.
Source
Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
World War, 1914-1918--Peace
Austria
Contributor
Danna Faulds
Language
English
Provenance
Document scan was taken from Library of Congress microfilm reel of the Wilson Papers. WWPL volunteers transcribed the text.
Text
[Transcription made by Miss Donnally, under the direction of R. S. Baker]
[To the Austrian Government
The President understands the Austrian Government to accept as the terms of peace not only the fourteen points enumerated in the address of the President to the Congress of the United States on the 8th of June last and the principles of settlement set forth in subsequent addresses, but also to consent to deal with the now definitely constituted representatives of the Czechoslovakian and Jugoslavian peoples as with regularly constituted political authorities and for the purposes of making such arrangements of independence as will be satisfactory to those peoples.
Understanding the communication of the Austrian Government of the…..of October in this sense, the President will submit to the consideration of the Governments with which the Government of the United States is associated in war the question of peace and the terms of armistice which would afford the United States guarantees for the successful negotiation of peace upon the basis of such an understanding.]
[Possibly Wilson’s draft for a reply to the Austrian note of Oct. 29, 1918. Not sent. Instead Lansing, on Oct. 31, 1918, gave the Swedish Minister verbal communication. See For. Rel. 1918, Supp. 1, I, pp. 429-430]
[To the Austrian Government
The President understands the Austrian Government to accept as the terms of peace not only the fourteen points enumerated in the address of the President to the Congress of the United States on the 8th of June last and the principles of settlement set forth in subsequent addresses, but also to consent to deal with the now definitely constituted representatives of the Czechoslovakian and Jugoslavian peoples as with regularly constituted political authorities and for the purposes of making such arrangements of independence as will be satisfactory to those peoples.
Understanding the communication of the Austrian Government of the…..of October in this sense, the President will submit to the consideration of the Governments with which the Government of the United States is associated in war the question of peace and the terms of armistice which would afford the United States guarantees for the successful negotiation of peace upon the basis of such an understanding.]
[Possibly Wilson’s draft for a reply to the Austrian note of Oct. 29, 1918. Not sent. Instead Lansing, on Oct. 31, 1918, gave the Swedish Minister verbal communication. See For. Rel. 1918, Supp. 1, I, pp. 429-430]
Original Format
Letter
To
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Files
Collection
Citation
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, “Woodrow Wilson to Austrian Government,” [1918 October 29], WWP25337, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.