Verschiedene Dokumente betreffend Präsident Woodrow Wilson Page 12 · 12 of 18
Various documents concerning President Woodrow Wilson
English Translation
I believe that, in such a debate, it would be possible to fully inform the President of the United States of the fact that we, too, are seeking a solution in the special exodus he mentioned, which, in order to use his expression, "is most likely to bring about a lasting peace," I can assure you that the satisfaction of those just national aspirations of those Slavic peoples, which are so close to no country, does not have to be a sincere wish, because not only our dissent. to make a just peace possible, but also to demand a good relationship between us and those peoples, of which the Lord President rightly emphasizes, cass them with great kennels of My subjects standing in such close contact. If, therefore, on their side, this endeavour is consistent, we will offer a generous hand to help, on our part, to make the conditions of their existence, their further progress and their trade more favourable, on the other hand, we can shift the right of peoples and provinces without, and indeed against, the serious interest of the peoples concerned from one sovereignty to the other - a right which the President of the United States has good reason in disputing 151