PRESIDENT WILSON

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 31, 1 November 1920, Page 5

PRESIDENT WILSON

INTIMATE INCIDENTS REVEALED BY BIS SECRETARY LONELY POSITION EXPLAINED By Telecr&ph-Press Association-Copyright . New York, October 29. Mr. J. P. Tumulty (secretary io President Wilson), addressing a political rally at Bethesda, Maryland, wealed many intimate incidents concerning President Wilson. Mr. Tumulty said that when Congress was still applauding President Wilson's great war messago in 1917, the President, who was sitting in an anteroom, said): "Think what they are applauding. It mean* death for our young men. .How strange it seems that they should applaud that." And thus President Wilson became a most uncompromising advocate for the most stringent measures in conducting the war. It was he who insisted on mining the North Sea: who broached the matter of combining the Allies under Foch. . "It is said that President Wilson would not take counsel of others," said Mr; Tumulty. "You will not find another President who consulted so much with othero, but he would .not do what he had been hold to do. He hojds that a President should be a leader, not a follower. I havo heard (President Wilson say, 'I want the people to .love me, but they never will.' This lonely man is not lonely because he disdains love. He craves it with all his soul. He is lonely because of his genius. President 'Wilson lacks by temperament the 'liail-fol-low-well-met,' easy familiarity. I have two pictures in my mind—the first of aslight, vigorous, alert man who addresaed Congress in 1917; tho second of a man sitting huddled in a chair looking upon a procession of wounded soldiers. As they snlute, he bows his head. Wounded greet wounded. They and he alike aro casualties of the Great War."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.