The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-04-10
PRESIDENT TIRED
OF F0OL|NG
If He Can't Get Action Will
Return Home Disguised
With Lack of
APPRECIATION EFFORTS

Orchard v. Oulahan, in New York |
Times.)
= Paris, April 10-The formal an
nouncement that the steamship
George Washington had been order |
ed by President Wilson to return to
Europe without delay-which con-
firmed the information cabled from
Paris to The New York Tins Sun
day-created what amounted to a
sensation in all quarters concerned
in the effort to establish would
peace.
The announcement gave rise to
much excited comment. Coupled
with it was an unmistakable inti-
nation from an authoritative source
that the President would return to
America on the George Washington
if full agreements on al. the major
points in dispute between the big
powers were not reached by the
time the steamship arrived on this
/ side of the Atlantic.
In the speculative comment heard
here Monday afternoon the word
| s'bluff'' has been used cautiously by
/ some of those who contend that the
/ President would not dare, could not
| dare, withdraw from the Peace Con-
4 ference.
But all the information in the
i possession Of The New York Times
correspondent indicates that the
President is not bluffing. With
thorough knowledge of how the re-
call OF the George Washington will
be construed, he has placed him
self in position where, as matter
of pride, he will be obliged to leave
France if a settlement is not assur-
ed within the brief period the
George Washington will take to
make the voyage. In other words he
cannot afford to leave the impress
sion by remaining, that he has tried
a supreme bluff, and that it has
Il been called
u But ''bluff'' is too vulgar and un-
dignified a term to apply to the at
titude the President has felt called
upon to assume. The situation is
J entirely too serious to permit him
to adopt that attitude without full
realization of it's consequences. His
: orders to the George Washington
: tous significance in the face of the
optimistic public statements of Pre-
: mier Lloyd George and M. PichoI
! that am understanding has beer
reached on all points in dispute
Apparently the President-out OF
the wealth of his experience in tht
: past four months-when he saw
4 agreements reached one day upse
l on the next, has not supreme faitl
o that these understandings will stick
4 What happened at the President
l Paris residence emphasizes his de
termination to get action or get out
i The four other members of the Am
o erican Peace Delegation called OF
o him to discuss the general situation
: with particular regard to what wa
: to be done in this critical week
Secretary Lansing, Colonel House
t General Bliss, and Henry Whit
d found the President in bed, bu
! looking fairly fit after his trying at
|, tack of near-inf1uenza. What b
It said to them is not disclosed in de
= tail, but it is known that he said en-
), ough to convince them that he fel
e it beneath the dignity of the Presi
dent of the United States and hi
/ fellow commissioners to be longe
;t subjected to what they regarded a
5 lack of consideration in their dis
d interested efforts to bring peac
that would be lasting.
n The President informed Secrets
" ry Lansing and others that he ha
: cabled for the George Washingto
d to return to Europe Immediately.
=