Office of the Historian

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Memorandum by President Wilson8

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Gov’t of U. S. cannot be [but] regard every question that concerns any one of the Balkan States as an essential part of the general peace settlement, inasmuch as there is no part of Europe that is more likely to be a seed-bed of war than the Balkans. Peace with Bulgaria cannot be treated apart from the general Balkan settlement without embarrassing the consideration of such matters as the reopening of the treaties of Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest and making many matters of final consideration very difficult to handle. It would be very hazardous to treat separately any part of the whole.

  1. This paper bears the notation: “Handed me at Cabinet Oct 1/18 R L.”↩