The Technical Adviser to the Commission to Negotiate Peace ( Miller ) to Colonel E. M. House 49

Sir: In response to your inquiry relative to the Pact of London of April 26, 1915, I have the honor to state as follows:

Pursuant to the correspondence between the President and the Allies, including the memorandum of observations by the Allied Governments, [Page 488] quoted in the note of the President of November 5, 1918,50 agreement was reached that peace should be effected upon the terms stated in the Address of the President of January 8, 1918, (The Fourteen Points)51 and the Principles enunciated in his subsequent addresses, subject only to certain qualifications mentioned in said correspondence.

Accordingly, I am of the opinion that any provisions of the Pact of London of April 26, 1915, which may be inconsistent with the agreement above mentioned, reached between the Allies (including Italy, France, and Great Britain) and the United States, were by that agreement abrogated and are no longer in force.

I am [etc.]

David Hunter Miller
  1. Reprinted from Miller, My Diary, vol. iii, p. 237.
  2. Foreign Relations, 1918, supp. 1, vol. i, p. 468.
  3. Ibid., p. 12.