Tasker H. Bliss Papers

The Technical Adviser to the Commission to Negotiate Peace ( Miller ) to General Tasker H. Bliss

My Dear General Bliss : Referring to your verbal inquiry, conveyed to me by Colonel Embick,35 as to some possible modification of the Treaty of London, I feel sure that there has been no formal modification of this paper by the parties thereto.

The conferences at Rome between the Italians and the Jugo Slavs, while from a technical point of view, unofficial, so far as the Italian Government was concerned, were undoubtedly deemed by the Jugo Slavs to modify the Pact of London in a ‘practical sense.36 Furthermore, it may well be argued, and I may say it is my opinion, that the Note of the Allies quoted in the communication of the President of 5 November, 1918, to the German Government,37 which accepted (with certain reservations) the Fourteen Points of the President, must be considered to have modified the Pact of London in any respect in which the same is inconsistent with the Fourteen Points of the President; for the Note of the Allies is signed on behalf of the British, French, and Italian Governments, the parties to the Pact of London.

Yours faithfully,

David Hunter Miller
  1. Col. Stanley Dunbar Embick, member of the American section of the Supreme War Council; assistant to General Bliss on the Commission to Negotiate Peace.
  2. Bears the marginal notation in General Bliss’ hand: “Any procès Verbaux? If so can we get them?”
  3. Foreign Relations, 1918, supp. 1, vol. i, p. 468.