"PRESIDENT, WILSON.
WHAT EUROPE THOUGHT OF HIM.
Frank H. Simonds writes from Paris under date of March 3 as follows..-
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There is probably o more dimoult problem than the en- -deavour to represent to Americans Facçurately European views at the present time on American poli- tical conditions. Probably at no time since America entered the war has European attention been to such an' extant concentrated -on American domestic, poli-
tics, and certainly not in the period before we entered the war were these American political conditions less- understood in Europe. At bot- tom, this failure accurately to appraise the situation in América arises from the fact that Europe has accepted Mr. Wilson without * reservation as an authorised and qualified spokesman of the whole of the United States. The will of America, as it is understood bere. is what President Wilson says in the Paris Conference.
In English and French politics slike the defeat of the Prime Minister on any larger question
policy means the fall of the mistry and a change of political The fact that following power. President Wilson's defeat in the November election there was no change in America has been Baturally accepted here, where a knowledge of our peculiar institu- tions is relatively slight, as proof that only domestic questions were involved in that election and that the President remains the spokes- msn for the "American people, with their complete approval in
foreign matters.
When President Wilson decided to come to Europe all the Allied nations had in their turn to decide whether or not the President should be received as an Ambassador of all America. They decided to accept him as such. They have listened to every word that he has spoken in matters of policy with exactly that attention, that consideration which flows from an unqualified acceptance of Mr. Wilson in such
a role.
ow it is essential to recognise what the position of America in Europe is to-day. American aid on the military side is realised everywhere to have been the decisive factor in winning the war. American contributions to the feeding of millions of people in Belgium, in northern France, in eastern and southern Europe, has meant the difference between starvation and existence. There. are literally millions of people alive in Europe who owe their
xistence wholly to America.
For the future the little people of the large countries and the people large and small of the little countries all turn their eyes toward America as the one solid element of hope in a world otherwise sombre and despairing. Admiration, gratitude, hope-ali three emotions flow from , American service in Europe, and President Wilson's welcome to Europe was 8 natural and spontaneous expression on the part of millions of people of their feelings towards the country that
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To discriminate between "Mr. Wilson as President of the United States and as such, the represent ative of his country in Paris, and President Wilson, leader of a what to his own little people the future and a threat of repudiation political party at home, was a League of Nations meant, with by America of the many oblige. thing totally beyond the capacity America as a force in that League. tions which we have undertaken of the European peoples. To thema force for that justice and that through the President of United Mr. Wilson and the United States right of which, for their countries, States and have, through him, een the same thing, and I can-America was the living embodi-clearly indicated our purpose to nb adequately describe
What opposition to the League degree of apprehension
I have said and I repeat that in dismay which recent political my judgment it is the view of all of Nations in its present form in events in the United States well informed Americans in America means in Europe is Tech- to therefore unmistakable. have occasioned. And this Europe that for America dismay arises primarily out of a abandon the task now would nical objections arising out of feeling that America, as a whole, mean to surrender Europe to a danger to the Monroe Doctrine may desert Europe, may leave despair which might have almost or interference with our immigrarepudiates what Mr. Wilson has millions it bas temporarily saved any consequences. Germany tion laws are unimportant to the to permanent misery. The attack lost this war, it is true, but before European mind. upon President Wilson's League of Germany laid down her arms she by America, and asked, both will Nations formula seems to these almost succeeded in wrecking the be excluded from the operation peoples in Europe an attack upon nations she attacked. She has of the League of Nations. concession or amend- all that America means to them, left her enemies victorious, but Any
will be * made, And this is bound to be so.
exhausted, almost paralysed, in ment
No nation, big or For the American in Europe the presence of the stupendous except" one. the attitude and sentiment task of reconstruction. We who little, will consent to the with- expressed by the common people came late, who suffered relatively drawal of America from Europe of all the Allied nations little, were still strong, supplied willingly. If the League of Na- is a thing which at once the one fixed, basis of hope in a tions and the idea of the League of awakens pride and humility. It situtation critical beyond words Nations collapse, the elements of hope will be withdrawn from the is not the flattery of politicians, to describe.
and the it is not even the praise of public In this fituation it is too much European situation men which impressos: it is rather to expect that either France of people that have the great task of 'the simple, unlimited faith of the Great Britain, much less the little reconstruction to undertake may masses of the people. On two nations, will be able to differen-yield to despair. In sum, the evenings last week I attended tiate between Mr. Wilson, Presid. simple fact is that Europe has dinners, one in honour of M. ent, and Mr. Wilson, leader of the accepted Mr. Wilson as
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