Note 518 — BOOK VIII THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS (continued 7)

“The Allied Governments,” the effective passage ran, “have given careful consideration to the correspondence which has passed between the President of the United States and the German Government. Subject to the qualifications which follow, they declare their readiness to make peace with the Government of Germany on the terms of peace laid down in the President’s Address to Congress of January 8th, 1918, and the principles of settlement enunciated in his subsequent Addresses.”

(Note transmitted to the German Government by the Allies through the Swiss Minister on November 5th, 1918.)