Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-11-22
WILSON TO co
TO PEACE MEET
Officially Stated He win Head the
United States Peace
Mission.
Wife TO ACCOMPANY HIM
White House Announcement Says Mrs.
Wilson and official Delegates Will
Go With President, Who is to
Insist on League of Nations.

Washington. Nov 20.-President
Wilson will head this country's dele
CATION to the peace conference. lie ex-
poets to sail for France within n day
or two after December ., the opening
OF the regular session OF congress.
Ihis was officially announced at the
White House. The statement is as
follows:
Ihe president expects to sail for
France Immediately after the opening
OF the regular session of congress for
the purpose of taking part in the dis
cussion and settlement OF the main
features of the treaty of peace.
1T is not likely that it will be pos
sible for him to remain throughout the
sessions of the formal peace confer
ence, but his presence at the outset is
necessary in order to obviate the mani
fest disadvantages of discussion by
cable in determining the general out
lines of the final treaty, on which he
must necessarily be consulted.
HE will, of course, be accompanied
by delegates who will sit as the repre-
sentatives of the United States
throughout the conference. The names
of the delegates viii be presently an
nOunced."
Mrs. Wilson will accompany the
president, II was learned, and the en-
tire delegation--peace envoys, secre-
taries, stenographers and the like
Will probably sail on one of the Ameri.
can battleships, possibly the Pennsyi-
vania.
The presidents announcement set
ties two questions. The first of these
Is the fact that the peace conference
will be an early one, beginning In De-
cember; the second is that II viii be
held at Versailles.
The president Will appear before
congress, presumably on the day it's
regular session opens. TO explain more
mlnutely he reasons why, at this time,
1t is In. ,st i've for him to go abroad.
His reasons. ii was said, will go far
toward modifying the feeling in GER
tain quarters Of the senate and the
house that it is nnwise for him to
leave the country.
There are two outstanding reasons
why the presidents attendance is nec-
esSary Mt the peace conference. He
wants to preserve the unity of counsel
that brought victory to the allies and
America on the battlefield, and which
characterized the sessions Of the SUI
preme war council at Versailles. and
he also wants TO make secure the foun-
dations of League of Nations.
The latter is his plan for world and
lasting peace and he is so strongly
convinced Of its efficacy that he is go
ing to Europe to put 1t into concrete
form.
BY common consent and appreciation
of all the allies the president will as-
sumo the leading role at the moment
ous conference The position Of the
United States II the great war, coupled
with his position as this nations
spokesman, will make him the chief
figure and one whose word will com
mand the respectful audience of all
civilization.
He will be able TO see the peace con-
ference started with the fright foot for
ward" and officials and diplomats here
believe that viii be half the battle for
the eventual amicable settlement OF
the grave questions It will lave before
II.