[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Woodrow Wilson Announcement of the End of World War I

[Charles Agvent]

WILSON, Woodrow. ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DELIVERED 
AT A JOINT SESSION OF THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS NOVEMBER 11, 1918. 
Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1918. First Edition. Printed 
wraps, 11 pages. SIGNED by the President on the front cover. A scarce 
example, most especially when signed, of Woodrow Wilson's official 
announcement of the end of World War I. The Allies' armistice terms were 
first presented to German negotiators on 8 November 1918; alarmed at the 
severity of the terms the Germans lodged formal protests before 
reluctantly signing revised terms at 5 A.M. on 11 November; the 
armistice was to come into effect six hours later, at 11 A.M. President 
Wilson shortly afterwards announced details of the armistice to Congress 
in this speech which also outlines the terms of the armistice: "The war 
thus comes to an end; for, having accepted these terms of armistice, it 
will be impossible for the German command to renew it. It is not now 
possible to assess the consequences of this great consummation. We know 
only that this tragical war, whose consuming flames swept from one 
nation to another until all the world was on fire, is at an end and that 
it was the privilege of our own people to enter it at its most critical 
juncture in such fashion and in such force as to contribute in a way of 
which we are all deeply proud to the great result. We know, too, that 
the object of the war is attained; the object upon which all free men 
had set their hearts; and attained with a sweeping completeness which 
even now we do not realize. Armed imperialism such as the men conceived 
who were but yesterday the masters of Germany is at an end, its illicit 
ambitions engulfed in black disaster." Vertical crease down center, fair 
amount of wrinkling. Very Good. (#014918)        $8,500

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