The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-28

Washington. Mar. 2S.-This gov ernment has received, it was disclosed today, an amazing article by Count Johann vou Eerustorlf, former Ger man Ambassador to the United States. in the form of an obituary of Colonel F. NJ. House, a member of the Amer jean delegation to the peace confer ence. That a serious report of tho death of Colonel House could have reached Berlin Is not believed here ColoRel House recently was confined to his rooms in Paris by illness, but was at no time dangerously sick.
 The assumption, in respect Of Count von Bernstorn's "recollections' of Colonel House, with whom he claims to have had Intimate rela- ttons." is that the article, which ap- peared in the Berlin "Tagblatt." was prepared with the object of any pos Hlble influence 1t might have upon both Colonel House and President Wilson at the peace conference.
 The former German Ambassador asserts Colonel House was the most sincere and honest pacidst' he ever knew, end that the Colonel was just as emphatic at London against the the lawlees blockade as he was at Berlin against unrestricted submarine warfare" Both meth.-s of carry ing on war" he says "auta ECuiZed the human and passionate heart Of Mir House" BernstOrff says he "cannot ilnaginr that Colonel House in the last months of his life could have thought differently than be fore"
 The complete text of the article as tc appeared in the "Tageblatt' fol- lows:
 Count von Bernstorff who for years was our ambassador at Wash iuzton has sent us at our req-est the following recoIIections of Colone, House. with whom he was on terms of intimate friendship:
 The report of the sudden demise of %olonel House. who was at Parts as a member of the American peace delegation filled me with sorrow, ba- cause during my activities at Wash ington I learned to know him inti- mately and with the sincere regard of a friend.
 "'Colonel House. who had an un- assuming home at New York. occu- pied very peculiar and influential position at the White House. He was bound to the President by very close friendship; nevertheless, he always refused to accept any pupllC OILlcet III spite of the fact that he lived in mod est circumstances and could have secured any Cabinet or Ambassad doriai post he desired. In this manner he remained entirely independent, and was, after President Wilson's acces- sion to office, in March, 1918. his nearest adviser on home, as well as on foreign affairs AS such. Colonel House occupied a position which Is unique in American history.
 During the war Mir. Wilson trust ed him with the most important mis- sioE9 to foreisn lands, on which he twice visited Berlin. During one of his stays at London, Colonel House remarked to an English Minister wife, who was none too friendly tC America, that he was the eyes and ears of the President I know from personal experience how thoroughly and correctly he has kept his friend informed on conditions in Europe
 Tt was not easy to become inti- uateiy acquainted with Col House. whose proverbial IaClturnity could be compared to the retfcence of old NIoltke To the majority of his cour- trymen, but especially to his country men from the South. Colonel HOuse vas, with all his personal charm and 'oUSbern courtesy, reserved.
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