The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-12-04
PRESIDENT WILL HEAD
THE PEACE DELEGATION
Name of Gen. Bliss as Delegate to
Peace Conference Causes
WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT
Premiers of England, France and Ita-
ly Are Expected to
Be Present

""llliS Iotl, NOV. Z9.-PreSldent
wilson personally will head the Amer
lean delegation at the peace confer-
ence. This was announced officially
tonight at the White House.
The other members of the delepa-
tiUn will be:
Hobert Lansing, Secretary of State.
Col. E. NJ. House.
>. tenry White, former ambassador 10
France and Italy.
Gen. Tasker II. Bliss, former chief
OF staff Of the army, and now Ameri-
can military representative on the Su.
preme War Council at Versailles.
| The White House announcement fol-
lows:
ut was announced at the executive
''"ht that the ?cnrescnta-
| tlvcs OF the United States at the peace
conference would be:
"Thc President himself, the Secrc-
tary OF State, the Hon. Henry White,
recently ambassador to France: Mr.
Edwarl NJ. House, and Gen. Tasker II.
Bliss.
"1t was explained that it had not
before because the number of repre-
sentativcs each of the chief belligcr-
nts was 10 send had until day or
two ago Keen under discussion"
Nothing to Add
White House officials would add
nothing TO the formal statement and
no che processing to be in the conf
dcncc o: the president would tall.
lhcr was only one surprise in the
statement the appearance of the
name OF Gen. Bliss as one of the rep
rcscntativcs. 1t had been taken for
granted that the general military rep
! ntnt Of
the Supreme War Council would take
part in tie discussions at Versailles,
but the prevailing idea had been that
he would i'c attached to the delegation
III a military capacity, Just as Ad-
mlral Benson probably will be present
as spokesman for the navy in the
great naval problems to be solved
Tn y yesterday callers at the White
House gained the distinct impression
that there would be but three accrel-
ltcd delegates of full rank 1t was sue
EeSted tonight that the name Of Gen.
Bliss was added at the last moment
unon receipt of information that the
! Allied - |'crs would include a r.il-
ltary man among their rcpresepta-
tivcS
Prrmiers to Attend
The premiers of Great Britain ani
France and Italy are expected to at
tend the peace conference as rcp"c-
scntatlVes Of tfrir governments, cut,
ike the President, may not remain
, throughout the conference. The gtr-
cral understanding here is that ,>r?s-
ont plans are to have the conference
first agree to the broad principles If
the treaty and leave the working mt
Of details to further sittings.
This would enable the President and
. the Entente prcmicrs speedily to re-
turn to the capitals Of their rcspcc-
tive countries so as to give their per-
sonal attention to afafir sof State.
Lansing's Record
Secretary Lansing, who heads the
delegation proper, became Secretary
of State in June, 1915, when William
}. Bryan resigned, rather than sign 4
note to Germany in the Lustania case,
which, he thought, might lead to war
During the three and half years
that have followed Mr.. Lansing has
conducted many difficult negotiations
ior the country as q neutral and as
bclligcrent, and his name apcpars on
oil Of the historic documents telling
the story of Americas entry into tho
war as well as those answering Ger
many's ncace pleas which preceded the
downfall of the Central Alliance. \
the time of his appointment, he was
counselor Of the tSatc Department, af.
tei career as an international lawyer
which had established his reputation
as one of the foremost American au-
thortics on the subject.
Republican Member
Mr.. White. the Republican Of the
delegation, is a diplomat of long cx-
nrricncc, who began as secretary Of
tn" American legation in Vienna i'm
1884. He served as secretary of the
embassy at v@rious capitals, repre-
scented the United States at several
great international gatherings and in
1908 was appointed ambassador to
Italy by President Roosevelt Two
years later he was made ambassador
to France, where he rcma med until
1909. His last public service was in
r9iO, when President Taft sent him 20
chile as special ambassador Of ths.
United States for the celebration Of
IT," centenary Of Chilean indcpcnh-
cnce.
Presidents Adviser
| 'o' House has never held public
office, but as President Wilson's per
- RAJ friend IN. 0dviScT h is rclitrN
rnncrh'lV aS h"Vm" Diay"d "rcot""
pH"t in tn" present administration
"nY other man cvccDt e Pros
j. mt himself. lie has boon called into
coisultat ion ut every crisis and. after
6, 'ng to europe n l91A 1915 an
$40 as the Presidents personal ron-
re! entativc to European governments
he was commissioned to gather and
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