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The Mid-European Union was a post-World War I political association established in the United States of America on 16 September 1918 "to negotiate territorial disputes between the emerging nations" of Central Europe "and to work towards some form of federal union or economic alliance." [1]
On 26 October 1918, Thomas Masaryk proclaimed the association's Declaration of Common Aims for the independence for the Czecho-Slovaks, Poles, Yugoslavs, Ukrainians, Uhro-Rusyns, Lithuanians, Romanians, Italian-Irredentists, Unredeemed Greeks, Albanians, Zionists, and Armenians. [2] [3] [4] [5] This occurred at a meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Independence Hall. [6]
References
- ^ Kantowicz, Edward R. "The Rage of Nations" (Eerdmans, 1999) p 153
- ^ Roberts, Kenneth Lewis. "Europe's Morning After" (Harper, 1921), p 131
- ^ "Free Vote Demanded For Subject Peoples; Mid-European Declaration To Be Signed Today; Jugoslav Enjoy Protests Map" New York Times, 26 October 1918, p 7
- ^ Hochman, Carol. "Historic Markers Honor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk." Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh (Available online as Word doc)
- ^ Document text.
- ^ National Park Services article, NPS website.
Categories:- Former international organizations
- Foreign policy lobbying organizations in the United States
- Politics of Czechoslovakia
- Diplomatic conferences in the United States
- 20th-century diplomatic conferences
- 1918 in the United States
- 1918 in international relations
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