Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-30
PEACE PARLEY DELEGATES WILL
BE HEADED BY THE PRESIDENT

with. but when Mr.. white issued his in
TO appear in uniform. A Paris news
Naper, describing the affair. said:
Ambassador white, the representa-
tive of what Is admitted to be the most
democratic country In the world. has
brought about n revival of official eti-
duettC, and no such picturesque, bizarre
assembly has been seen for a long time.
II was strongly suggestive of comic
opera. and from all the costumes pres
ent---costumes which had been carefully
put away many months ago--there en-
anated peculiar perfumes, and the odor
OF moth balls pcrmeated the vast draw
ing room OF the embassy so as quite to
smother the aroma of the lavish floral
dcCorations.'
Daughter weds German Count
Another event in Mr.. Whites official
residence in Paris was the marriage on
April 20, 1909, of his daughter, Miss
Murei White. to Count Hermann Roger
Hans Christow Seherr-Thoss eldest son
Dobran. Prussan Silesia, one of the
hereditary peers Of Prussia, and owner
of vast estates, two castles and a fa-
nous house in Berlin. The bridegroom
was at that time member of the Royal
Prussian Cuirasscrs. and press dis
patches telling of the wedding in ST.
Josephs Roman Catholic Church de-
| scribed the Count as wearing the white
uniform of the Imperial Cuirassiers at
| the ceremony.
Ambassador White did no. attend the
wedding of his daughter, Protestant,
| to the. Count, a Catholic. II was ex-
| planned that Mr.. White absented him
| self from the church service as protest
| against the attitude of the Catholic &C.
clesiastiCal authorities in refusing to
permit the service of the Episcopal
Ole Church. Mr.. White had frequently
| entertained high dignitaries of the Cath
| oliC Church.
Retired in 1910
In December of 1909 Mr. white re-
| tired as ambassa dor, turning his talents
| 20 service on various International COM
| missions notably that of the Pan-Amer-
| can conference at Buenos Aires in 1910
and the Chilean commission which visited
| chile in September of the same year on
lie celebration of the anniversary of
| Chilean independence.
| While in Copenhagen in August, 1914.
| Mr.. White was again the victim of re
ports which were circulated to the eff
feet that he had stated that, he did not
hold Germany to blame for the war In
"It is the duty OF every American TO
! be neutral in word as well as in deed.
| No such statement was made by me. I
merely commented upon the excellent
treatment given Americans by Germans.
| This has been uniformly good, though
several Americans did run into trouble.
What the cause of this was do not
know | wish to lay emphasis upon the
necessity for n neutral nearing on the
part of Americans. This war is not
their business, and they should keep out
of it."
President Trusts House
Colonel House has never held public
office, but as President Wilson's per
sonal friend and adviser he Is credited
generally as having played a greater
part in the present Administration thar
any other man except the President him.
self He has been called into consul.
tation at every crisis, and after going tC
Europe in 1914, 1915 and 1916 as the
| Presidents personal representative tc
European Governments he was commits.
stoned to gather and organize data to be
used whenever the time for a peace con.
| ference might come. He hastened tc
| Europe when it became apparent that
Germany was crumbling, and was ir
France TO speak for the President II
conference with the heads of the Allied
Governments when the terms of armi
stice and the basis for peace discussion
were determined
General Bliss, who formerly was CHIEF
of staff of the army, went to Europe
last December with an American mis-
sion and later was permanently assigned
as the American military Representative,
on the Inter-Alled Council at Versailles
As the American military representativ,
at the peace conference he will be as
sisted by a staff of officers, most o
whom, in the understanding here, viii
come from the general staff of the Amer
lean Expeditionary Forces.
Admiral Benson has made severa
trips to Europe since the United State
entered the war and went to Paris will