763.72119/1803½a
The Secretary of State to
President Wilson
Washington,
June 14, 1918
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My Dear Mr. President: Representative
Gallagher95 called on me this morning and submitted the draft
of a proposed resolution relative to Poland, which is practically an
adoption of the declaration of the Premiers attending the Supreme War
Council at Versailles.
He asked me for my views as to the propriety of introducing such a
Resolution and I told him that I would take it under consideration.
Would you be good enough to give me your judgment in the matter, and any
suggestions as to change in phraseology which would meet your
wishes?
Faithfully yours,
[Enclosure]
Draft Resolution
Whereas, the President of the United States in his address to the
Congress of the United States on January 8, 1918 said: “An
independent Polish State should be erected which should include the
territories inhabited by the indisputably Polish populations, which
should be assured a free and secure access to the sea;”
And, Whereas, on the fifth day of June, 1918, at the session of the
supreme war council at Versailles the British, French, and Italian
representatives agreed that: “The creation of an independent Polish
state, with free access to the sea, constitutes one of the
conditions of a solid and just peace and of the rule of right in
Europe.”
Be it therefore Resolved by the House of Representatives, that the
House of Representatives consider the creation of a free and
independent Polish state, with access to the sea, to be one of the
objects for which the United States is fighting in the present war,
and as one of the necessary provisions in any treaty of peace which
may be concluded.
