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Document 54981

WOODROW WILSON and ROBERT LANSING
During WWI, the President appoints the U.S. Consul at Johannesburg.
Partly Printed DS: "Woodrow Wilson" as 28th U.S. President and "Robert Lansing" as Secretary of State, 1p, 23x17. Washington, 1918 April 9. In part: "Know ye, that reposing special trust and confidence in the abilities and integrity of Fred D. Fisher, of Oregon, a Consul of Class three of the United States of America. I do assign him as Consul of the United States of America at Johannesburg, Transvaal...I do hereby pray and request His Britannic Majesty, His Government and Officers to permit the said Fred D. Fisher fully and peaceably to enjoy and exercise the said office...." The Transvaal was annexed by Great Britain in 1900 and became a crown colony of the British Empire in 1902. Led by Jan Christiaan Smuts and Louis Botha, the Transvaal was granted self-government in 1907 and in 1910 became a founding province of the Union of South Africa. Upon the outbreak of WWI in 1914, General Botha, the President of South Africa, immediately offered to send troops to invade German South-West Africa. Afrikaner opposition to this move provoked a major Boer Revolt. This was defeated by the middle of 1915. Led by General Smuts, over 146,000 men served in South African units during the war. This included 43,000 in German South-West Africa. It is estimated that about 3,000 South Africans joined the British Royal Flying Corps. The U.S. entered WWI in 1917, a year before President Wilson made this diplomatic appointment. Folds, vertical folds run between the "od" in Woodrow. Light transference of ink from document being folded does not touch signatures. Lightly creased. Overall, fine condition.

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