Mid-European Union

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."[https://books.google.com/books?id=OWb8FEvxY2YC&dq=%22Mid-European+Union%22&pg=PA153 Kantowicz, Edward R. "The Rage of Nations" (Eerdmans, 1999) p 153]

President Wilson accepted a "Union" delegation with Thomas Garrigue Masaryk as the head and received its resolution in Friday 20 September 1918.PRECLÍK, Vratislav. Masaryk a legie (Masaryk and legions), váz. kniha, 219 str., vydalo nakladatelství Paris Karviná, Žižkova 2379 (734 01 Karvina, Czech Republic) ve spolupráci s Masarykovým demokratickým hnutím (Masaryk Democratic Movement, Prague), 2019, {{ISBN|978-80-87173-47-3}}, pp. 87 - 89, 110 - 112, 124 - 128,140 - 148,184 - 190

On 26 October 1918, Thomas Masaryk proclaimed the association's Declaration of Common Aims for the independence for the Czechoslovaks, Poles, Yugoslavs, Ukrainians, Uhro-Rusyns, Lithuanians, Romanians, Italian-Irredentists, Unredeemed Greeks, Albanians, Zionists, and Armenians.[https://books.google.com/books?id=kS82AAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Mid-European+Union%22&pg=PA131 Roberts, Kenneth Lewis. "Europe's Morning After" (Harper, 1921), p 131][https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B03E3D81539E13ABC4E51DFB6678383609EDE "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)[http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/fame/proc.htm Document text]. This occurred at a meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Independence Hall.[https://archive.today/20120805080917/http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/132independence/132facts4.htm National Park Services article], NPS website.

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