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."
President Wilson accepted a "Union" delegation with Thomas Garrigue Masaryk as the head and received its resolution in Friday 20 September 1918.
On 26 October 1918,
Thomas Masaryk proclaimed the association's ''Declaration of Common Aims'' for the independence for the
Czechoslovaks,
Poles
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,
Yugoslavs,
Ukrainians, Uhro-
Rusyns,
Lithuanians
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,
Romanians,
Italian-Irredentists,
Unredeemed Greeks,
Albanians
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,
Zionists
Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after ''Zion'') is a nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to what is known in Jew ...
, and
Armenians. This occurred at a meeting in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at
Independence Hall.
National Park Services article
NPS website.
File:Masaryk Independence Hall 1sm.jpg, Masaryk Independence Hall 1sm
File:Zatkovich signing sm.jpg, Zatkovich signing sm
File:Masaryk Independence Hall2.jpg, Masaryk Independence Hall2
File:New Liberty Bell sm.jpg, New Liberty Bell sm
File:New Map of Europe 1918.jpg, New Map of Europe 1918
References
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