Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-26
WILSON TO co
TO PEACE MEET
Officially Stated He viii 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 tc
Insist on League of Nations.

washington, Nov 2O.-President
wilson will head this country's dele
sation TO the peace conference. He ex-
pects to sail for France within day
or Two after December 2, the opening
OF the regular session of congress.
Inis was officially announced at the
white House. The statement is as
follows:
Inc 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
cusslon and settlement of the main
features of the treaty of peace.
1T Is not likely that it will be pos
siDie 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 will be presently an
nounced."
Mrs. Wilson will accompany the
president it was learned, and the en-
tire delegation-peace ENJOYS, secre-
taries, stenographers and the like
Will probably sail on one of the Ameri-
can battleships, possibly the Pennsyl-
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; me second is that it will b,
held at Versailles.
The president will appear before
congress, presumably on the day its
regular session opens, to explain more
infinitely the reasons why, at this time,
1t is imperative for him to go abroad.
His reasons, it was said, will go far
toward notifying the feeling in GER
tain quarters of the senate and the
house that it is unwise for him to
leave the country.
There are two outstanding reasons
why the presidents attendance is nee
essary at 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 IT'S 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
Gus conference The position of the
United States in 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 will be half the battle for
the eventual amicable settlement Of
the grave questions it will have before
If