[ Home ] [ Library ] [ Index ] [ Maps ] [ Links ] [ Search ] [ Email ] When the Serbian Flag Flew Over the White House![]() On July 28, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson gave the
following message to the American people. It was read
in churches throughout the country and published in
virtually all major newspapers. The Serbian flag was
raised over the White House and all public buildings
in this nation's capital. The message read: On Sunday, 28th of this present month, will occur the
fourth anniversary of the day when the gallant people
of Serbia, rather than submit to the studied and
ignoble exactions of a prearranged foe, were called
upon by the war declaration of Austria-Hungry to
defend their territory and their homes against an
enemy bent on their destruction. Nobly did they
respond. So valiantly and courageously did they oppose the
forces of a country ten times greater in population
and resources that it was only after they had thrice
driven the Austrians back and Germany and Bulgaria had
come to the aid of Austria that they were compelled to
retreat into Albania. While their territory has been
devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of
the Serbian people has not been broken. Though
overwhelmed by superior forces, their love of freedom
remains unabated. Brutal force has left unaffected
their firm determination to sacrifice everything for
liberty and independence. It is fitting that the people of the United States,
dedicated to the self-evident truth that is the right
of the people of all nations, small as well as great,
to live their own lives and choose their own
government, and remembering that the principles for
which Serbia has so nobly fought and suffered are
those for which the United States is fighting, should
on the occasion of this anniversary manifest in an
appropriate manner their war sympathy with this
oppressed people who have so heroically resisted the
aims of the Germanic nations to master the world. At
the same time, we should not forget the kindred people
of the Great Slavic race--the Poles, the Czechs and
Jugo-Slavs, who, now dominated and oppressed by alien
races yearn for independence and national unity. This can be done in a manner no more appropriate than
in our churches. I, therefore, appeal to the people of
the United States of all faiths and creeds to assemble
in their several places of worship on Sunday July 28,
for the purpose of giving expression to their sympathy
with this subjugated people and their oppressed and
dominated kindred in other lands, and to invoke the
blessings of Almighty God upon them and upon the cause
to which they are pledged. Woodrow Wilson, President, When they needed Serbs to die for the common cause,
the West was not short of praise of the Serbian bravery. Today the West is giving away the Serbs for free in order to access
billion people large Muslim market. Here is the song that originates round the same time as the above President Wilson's order.
Guess who is the hated conqueror of the Serbian lands in Krajina, Bosnia and Kosovo today? It is American and NATO troops. ![]()
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