The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-27
COL ONEL HOUSE REC0NME NDED AS
 IMPORTANT MAN
Bernstorff Told Germans He Was Presidents Per
 sonal Representative. Many Conversations
 About Great Britain Letters and Documents Are Now Being Made Public.

House was recommended to the Ger man Foreign Office by Count Won Bernstorff, then German ambassa- made his second trip to Europe early 1 in 1916 as President Wilson's per sonal representative, according to let | ter from the ambassador to Gottlieb | Won Jagow, at that time foreign sec retary These letters have been pub 1 lished here with other documents pre- sented before the parliamentary in vestigation committee which recent l ly inquired into President Wilson's peace proposals during the war.
 -'Viewed from the local standpoint Count Won Bernstorff wrote on No vember 23, 1915, on the eve Of the coloneTs departure, "the mission or Colonel House appears to me deslr- abIe especially as the United States is so poorly represented in Berlin. Colonel House is wholly neutral, very discreet and deserving. Condolences could contribute much to the better ment of mutual relations
 Count Won Bernstorff informed his superior in the same letter that Amer jeans were at that time chiefly 1n- terested in "the restoration of peace and the abolition of militarism and nayaIism'' He added that Germany would be fable to compel England to recognize the freedom of the seas only if supported by the United States and if Germainy consented to end militarism."
 eff I receive no reply to this point from your excellency," he concluded,
 "I will continue to treat Colonel House in a dilatory manner. Up to now he has been very useful to me-
 A letter from Dr. Solf, Minister of
 Colonies, to Dr. Won Jagow report ed the formers conversation with Col one1 House at the American embassy in Berlin late in January, 191 G. <- In
 it Colonel House was credited with statements relative to the political situation in England.
 President Wilson's enissary was quoted as describing Viscount Grey, then British secretary of state for foreign affairs as ''the most tractable English statesman It was said he declared Earl Grey was "eninently suited and also ready to negotiate, and his imminent retirement from the British cabinet would not only be 1 und desirable but liable to prove fatal to Germany"
 Colonel House was alleged to have told Dr.. So1f there was a strong anti American feeling in England at that time and that "Germany was moi aware of the extent to which un- friendly notes were being exchanged between Washington and London" He was quoted expressing regret that "no arbitrator was available since England had indicated her lack l of faith in America's impartiality'' 1 Sentiment in England then under went a complete reversal, it was said, and it was out of the question to bring up the issue of a revision of the doctrine of the freedom of the seas.
 , A memorandum of a conversation { Colonel House had with Dr. Theobald i Bethmann-Bo oIlweg, at that time inn 1 peria1 chancellor, has also been pub ! 1ished by the commission. The chan
 cellor deplored the fact that Count 1 Won Bernstorff and Dr. Dernburg had 1 exploited the issue of the freedom of
 the seas, which he said 'thas injured 1 Germany's cause in the United
 States Colonel House was said to i have given the chancellor the in- pression that Earl Grey had indicated the matter could be discussed but that
 Premier Lloyd George had peremp- | torily rejected the suggestion. l A letter from Baron Won Der | Lancken, German governor of Brus-
 se1s to Count Montse1as, then in 1 charge of the American division of i the foreign office, briefly reported a 1 converse ton the former had with l Brand Whit1ock, American minister
 to Belgium in January 1916, in Brus- 1 sels, after MT. Whit1ock's return from 1 the United States The American l minister was reported to have said 1 President Wilson had assured him in a, confidential talk he was mo sworn Il foe of Germany" and that con the | contrary the destruction of political
 wea kening of Germany would not be to the interest of the United Sta tes.
 whose chief political aim was free dom"
 MT. WhitIock was quoted as having told Baron Won Der Lancken he was
 Differed $500,00o in the United States
 to retire from the Brussels post and
 devote himself to a lecture tour in ! behalf of German rule in Belgium" During the spring of 1916 Count Won Bernstorff implored the foreign office not to address any "snarlins