The sun., 1919-09-16
LANSING NOT TO
RESIGN DESPITE
WILSON DISCORD
Will Make No Denial of
Bullitt Revelations on
Treaty Negotiations.
NIGHT EMBARRASS CHIEF
Secretary Decides on Course
of Silence Until Peace
Pact Is Out of Way.
NIGHT EMBARRAss CHIEF
sD.c.nl ps,patch 70 TIE sux.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-Despite the
revelations of discord between the
President and Secretary Lansing. pre-
sumably his first official advisor at the
paris Peace Conference, Mr.. Lansing
will not resign. This was learned by
THE SUN to-day from an official au-
thority in close touch with both the
President and the Secretary Of State
during the period of negotiations and
since both officials returned to this
country.
Also It was declared that Mr.. Lans-
ing will issue no denial of the truth
Of the revelations made by William
C. Bullitt, formerly a confidential
attache Of the peace mission, who re-
signed because the President forsook
his announced peace programme, bar
tering away his famous fourteen
points" one at time to secure sup
port for his League of Nations
scheme.
The Secretary of State while in Paris
laid his views before the President just
as fully as he took Bullitt into his con-
Adence, and It was decided before the
return OIL NWO OASAaAo thot @AAs
Lansing would retain his portfolio.
Others, Too, Might Have Quit.
This is looked on here as evidence
that the President might have had to
Accept the resignation OF Henry White
and Gen. Tasker Bliss as members of the
peace mission also, as their views were
completely out Of harmony with those
q rfNNrr hnr ne NJ
Is has been demonstrated before the
Foreign Relations Committee.
To have had practically the entire
American peace mission resign or be
forced out because of inability to bring
themselves to accept the Presidents
views and course of action, 1t was
pointed out here to-day, would have
caused great embarrassment to Mr.. Will
sons claim that he was representing
the American people in his demands and
voicing the sentiment of the vast major
ity of American citizens.
From This authority IL was learned
that when the President left here on his
long stumping tour of the country he
felt the same way about Mr.. Lansing
However. the Bullitt revelations throw
a new light upon the substitution OF
Under Secretary of State Polk for Mr.
Lansing in Paris.
The information obtained to-da,
makes 1t appear that probably the al
most complete ignorance of what trans
pired In Paris in the latter months o.
the peace deliberations. shown in Mr
Lansing's appearance before Che Foreign
Relations Committee. may be directl,
connected now with the complete lacl
Of sympathy on Mr.. Lansing's part will
Of ha a troa nf
Official chief.
Believes Lansing VIII Resign
Mr.. Lansing, no doubt on account O
the attitude he had made known [,
Bullitt and to the President, wa
shunted aside to the comparatively tri
fling task OF celebrating upon response
buity for the war and the punishment
Of the Kaiser.
In View of this situation It is nov
generally felt here that Mr.. Lansing
once the treaty is out of the way, ma,
insist on resigning from the Cabinet
His staying on now, 1t is felt in som,
Official quarters, may be due only to ,
desire not to cause any embarrassment
10 his chief while the Senate has tn,
peace treaty before it.
Once action of one sort or other |!
taken It would not be surprising If 4
was followed by an announcement O.
Mr.. Lansing's impending resignation
Even then the true causes impelling thii
resignation would not appear, 1t is felt
out that the familiar reason of pressuT,
OF private affairs compelled his return
10 private life.
In the entire conduct of the Difficult
position in which he has been fol
months, Mr., Lansing is regarded here a,
having conducted himself in such a wa,
that there can be little, If any. reflection
on him.