Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him Part 52

THE WHITE HOUSE, WAs.h.i.+NGTON

1 May, 1919.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Paris.

I have not made use of the j.a.panese statement but am keeping my ear to the ground and waiting. My feeling is that an attempt to explain the compromise when no demand is made, would weaken our position instead of strengthening it. I will therefore do nothing about the j.a.panese matter unless you insist. It would help if I could unofficially say: First, the date of your probable return to this country; Second, whether tour country to discuss the League of Nations is possible. The adoption of the labour programme as part of the peace programme is most important, but not enough emphasis is being placed upon it. Could you not make a statement of some kind that we could use here, showing the importance of this programme as helping toward the stabilization of labour conditions throughout the world?

TUMULTY.

THE WHITE HOUSE, WAs.h.i.+NGTON

2 May, 1919.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Paris.

Sympathetic editorial New York _World_ reference j.a.panese settlement. I have not given out statement as yet. It does not look now as if any would be necessary.

TUMULTY.

Received at The White House, Was.h.i.+ngton, 2 May, 1919.

London.

TUMULTY, White House, Was.h.i.+ngton.

Am perfectly willing to have you use your discretion about the use you make of what I sent you about the Chinese-j.a.panese settlement. Sorry I cannot predict the date of my return though I think it will be by June first. Am expecting to make a tour of the country but even that is impossible to predict with certainty.

WOODROW WILSON.

THE WHITE HOUSE, WAs.h.i.+NGTON

4 May, 1919.

GRAYSON, Care President Wilson, Paris.

Papers here very critical of j.a.panese settlement. Chinese statement given great publicity.

TUMULTY.