1970/12/01 by Sterling Kernek, Sterling J. Kernek · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #German #Government (linguistics) #History #Interpretation (philosophy) #Law #Negotiation #Philosophy #Political science #State (computer science) #World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
paper · doi:10.1017/s0018246x00009481
openalex publication_date 1970/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
The best chances of a negotiated peace during the First World War lay with the President of the United States. Woodrow Wilson's efforts were abortive, but he made some very interesting moves. The most sensational was his note to the belligerents in December 1916, requesting them to state their peace terms—a move which seemed all the more provocative in Allied countries because it followed upon the heels of the German Chancellor's proposal to negotiate. The main purpose of this article is to examine the British Government's reactions to the President's note. A secondary purpose is to criticize some important points of interpretation made by Professors A. S. Link and Ernest May.