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
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
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.