The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-22
DOLLHOUSE GOES
 ABROAD TO HELP
 U. s. DIPLOMATS
Will Tell Our Ambassadors Presidents Wishes on
 Information Sought.

New York, Dec. 22-Col. Edward M. House, as messenger from Presi- dent Wilson, is going within two weeks to the be1ligerent countries of what the President would like to say personally if he were able, and to get from the Ambassadors all the infor- nation growing out of seventeen months of war that the President be- 1ieves he ought to know.
 Col. Houses mission is to put the President as directly in touch with the diplomatic representatives of the Uni- ted States as if they were brought to the State House from their posts, or as if the President were able to go to them. 2.
 COL House received a reporter last night in his apartments at 115 East Fifty-third street.-the apartments that have become famous as the ''Lit- tie White House of New York; In the small, white panelled library Col House was asked if he had read the news sent from Washington yester- day that he was to go to Europe at the Presidents request for the main purpose of canvassing and reporting on peace prospects.
 Not Peace Mission
 "I have" said the Colonel. "Thfs much is true about the story: I am going to Europe, but my mission is entirely apart from the peace situa- ton. Every country to which am going understands perfectly that do not appear as a[peace plenipotentiary or agent or intermediary<in any sense whatever. Every nation to which go knows perfectly that I will have no peace suggestions to make and that. do not expect any to be made. You cannot make that too emphatical! have thought it best to write out a formal statement, and desire to say SfatRnaRnts what it says, with no ifs or fands' or however about it. ''-
 The formal statement issued by Col. House was S follows:
 s'I am going to Europe at the re- quest of the President and Secretary Lansing for the purpose of taking in formation to some of our Ambassa- dors in order that they may have more intimate knowledge of this gov ernment's attitude regarding certain phases of pending international ques- tions. and in order to obtain from them their points of view.
 "It is thought inadvisab1e. to bring home at this time any of our AInbas- sadors from the belHgerent countries, and it has been found impossible to convey or to obtain by cable or cor respondence quite the correct atmos- phere. \.
 .I hope to return within six or eight weeks
 
 made it plain that any repetition of statements to the effect that he was going to Europe on a peace mission would be distasteful to the President and to himself, as being not merely an untrue summary of the Presidents purpose, but as a guess unjustified by the hard facts of the war situation
 For the present, at least, President Wilson contemplateS no action what ever in the way of offering himself as Intermediary or in the way of making any suggestions to foreign Government; and that he does not purpose to ''Sound'' any potentate or foreign office on what might be ac- ceptable to him or it in the way of peace terms.
 Along this Hne it is also true that the President feels that recent events have demonstrated the unlikeliness of peace proffers being acceptable to number of the be11igerent nations. For the present the President is entirely concerned with the satisfactory solu- tons of big international problems that gravely concern this country and which have little or nothing to do with the hopes or ambitions Of the nations at war. That, in a nutshell, is why Col House is to make another trip to Europe.
 Would Not Discuss Ford
 For publication or quotation, Col. House would not discuss Henry Ford's pacific venture or the less sensational moves made by other pacifists and peace propagandists, but it seemed to be entirely plain that the Co1oneI IS not following any such blind trails
 Col. House went to Europe at the request of the President last summer, visiting London, Paris, Berlin and The Hague. In one way or another he conferred with the really important persons in the Governments of belli- gerent countries, obtained for the Presidents private ear first hand