Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-26
COL : HOUSE
HAD 0. K. OF
BERhsT0RFF
Germany Hoped to Use
Wilson's Personal En-
yoy to Advantage.
ALSO SOUGHT TO
BUY OFF WHITLOCK
American Minister to Belgium Or
fsred $4,000 to Quit Post and De-
vote Himself to Spread Of German
Propaganda in America - Wilson
Sent Friendly Messase to Germany
Prior % Declaration Of War.
Bv Associated Press.

4 BY Associated Press.
berlin, May 26.--Col. E. NJ. House
was recommended to the German
foreign office by Count Won Bern
stoff, then German ambassador III
washington when the former made
his. "trip to Europe early in 1916 as
President Wilson's. personal repre-
sentative. said letters from the am
( bassador to Gottlieb Won Jagow. at
that time foreign secretary. These
letters have been published here.
with other documents presented be-
fore the parliamentary Investigating
committee, which recently inquired
into President Wilson's peace pre-
posals during the war.
4sViewed from the local stand
point, Count Won Bernstorff wrote
s on the eve OF the coloners departure.
..the missions OF Colonel House ap-
pears to me desirable. Colonel
House Is wholly neutral. very dis
Greet. and deserving confidence. He
would contribute Uuch to the bet
terrnent Of mutual relations"
House Said Grey Was "Tractable.''
Count Won Bernstorff informed his
!. superior In the same letter that
Americans were at that time Chief
ly intereatsd "in tho restoration OF
pssace and the abolition Of militarisln
and navalism.' Is
a letter from DE-. solt minister Of
cshonies. to- DR.. Won Jagow reported
\flie formers 6olversation with Ccl-.
yOnel House at the American embassy
iii Berlin latesin January. 1915. In 1t
Colonel House was quoted as de-
scribing Viscount Gray, then British
secretary OF state for foreign affairs.
as the most tractable English
statesman
Colonel House was alleged to have
told DIR. Solf there was a strong anti
American feeling in England at that
time.
Sentiment In England then under
went complete reversal, 1t vras
said, and it was out of the question
to bring up the issue OF revision Of
the doctrine of the freedom OF the
seas.
A memorandum OF a conversation
Colonel House had with DR.. Beth
man-Holweg, at that time imperial
chancellor, also has been published.
The chancellor deplored the fact that
Count Won Bernstorff and DR.. Dern-
burg had exploited the issue of the
freedom Of the seas, which he ss.id.
.has injured Germans cause In the
United States."
81 Wilson Friendly TO Germany.
y A letter from Baron Won Der Lam
chen, former governor Of Brussels,
TO Count Mongelas briefly reported q
: conversation the former had with
! Brand Whitloclk, American minister
to Belgium. In January. 1915, In
Brussels, after Mr.. Whitlocks re-
turn from the United States. The
American minister was reported. to
have said President Wilson had as
J sured him Ii q confidential talk he
E was mo sworn foe Of Germany and
that ION the contrary, the destruc-
/ ton or political weakening OF Ger
many would not be to the interest Of
the United States, whose chief pDlit-
Ical aim was freedom"
Mr.. Whitlock was quoted as l,ay-
ing told Won Der Lanchen he was
offered 100000 In the United States
to retire from the Brussels post and
devote himself to lecture tour in
behalf Of German rule in Belgium.