Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, through the medium of Major General Sir C. E. Caldwell, two volumes were published in London entitled Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, His Life and Diaries. As was to be expected, their contents were plentifully interlarded with vigorous attacks on the statesmen of the War and armistice periods, most of whom are still celebrities living in shadow of fame...
Nevertheless, Sir Henry said much. Said he of the late U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, whom he facetiously called "my cousin," and often referred to as "that ass": "That ass President Wilson has barged in and asked all belligerents for their terms...
...Cabinet we considered Wilson's answer to the Boche. It really is a complete usurpation of the power of negotiation. He practically ignores us and the French. He won't treat with the Hohenzollerns?thus making sure of Bolshevism. He won't treat as long as the Boches sink ships and have other frightfulness. And he is sending a separate letter to Austria. And all this without consultation with his allies. We discussed all this, and I was strongly of opinion that we should go over to Paris at once and register a note to Wilson putting...
...appears that President Wilson wants to form a League of Nations first and then refer everything to it. He has no clear idea of what is meant by such a League. His position in America becomes increasingly difficult, and he will probably have to go back soon and is desperately anxious to take something back...
Onetime Prime Minister Lloyd George, stung by the revelations in the Wilson diary, made haste to reply by publishing "reluctantly" two letters addressed to him by Sir Henry Wilson...