Office of the Historian

763.72119/1804½

President Wilson to the Secretary of State

Washington, 8 July, 1918 .

My Dear Mr. Secretary: My clear judgment about this1 is, that it is not wise to take such action piecemeal about the items of a final settlement. Our attitude is clearly spoken by our actions. The world has no doubt where we stand, and we have already recognized the representatives of a Polish State. If we are to be definite in the case of this particular national aspiration, why not in the case of others, and where shall we stop, definition being at each step increasingly difficult.

Faithfully Yours,

W. W.
  1. See Secretary Lansing’s letter of June 14, 1918, p. 130.↩